Essays

From Repertoires of Resistance to Monuments of Absence

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/ejtp.4.41720

Keywords:

Gezi, repertoires of resistance, monuments of absence, hunger strike, public sphere

Abstract

The Gezi Park protests developed some practices of resistance that can be remembered, recounted, reproduced, and re-enacted in instances, when necessary, in the future. These practices are to do with embodied action, knowledge of solidarity, cultural agency, specific use of language and body. This essay discusses how the repertoires of resistance is accumulated, and when suppressed by hegemony, creates ‘monuments of absence’, while still holding the potential vocabularies for future resistances.

Author Biography

Deniz Başar, Boğaziçi University

Deniz Başar is a theatre researcher, puppet maker, and twice national award-winning playwright. Her research is included in anthologies, such as Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations by Routledge (2019), Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race (2021), Creative Activism: Research, Pedagogy and Practice by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2022), and Palgrave Handbook on Theatre Censorship (2023). She completed her PhD in Concordia University’s Humanities Department with her work on contemporary Turkish theatre, entitled ‘A Dismissed Heritage: Contemporary Performance in Turkey Defined through Karagöz’ in 2021. Currently, she is an FRQSC post-doctoral fellow and continuing her research in Boğaziçi University, İstanbul.

Published

2022-06-23

Issue

Vol. 4 (2022)

Section

Essays

Copyright (c) 2022 Deniz Başar

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