AS A PART OF WORLD SYSTEMIC CRISIS: GEZİ PARK PROTESTS
DÜNYA SİSTEMİK KRİZİNİN BİR PARÇASI OLARAK GEZİ PARKI DİRENİŞİ

Author : Ferihan POLAT
Number of pages : 97-117

Abstract

Gezi Park Protests, at which both domestic and international level many social scientists try to interpret, is one of the biggest social opposition movement in Turkish political history. This movement marked to June 2013, according to some social scientists, is emerged with specific motives of Turkey and is completely unique to the country. However, accordingly some social scientists, this resist is a social opposition movement created by modern world system included to Turkey. The subject of this study is to analyze Gezi Park Protests in the framework of Walllerstein's Modern World System Theory and his approaches about crisis of this system. Wallerstein who claims that Modern World System has two big systemic crisis, points out 1848 revolutions had reshaped the world and ended, however second systemic crisis 1968 has not yet ended. Wallerstein, considers many worldwide social movements since 2008 as a continuation of the crisis of 1968, analyzed Gezi Park Protests in this framework a

Keywords

Modern World System Theory, Immanuel Wallerstein, 1968 World Revolution, Gezi Park Protests

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