This essay discusses practices of resistance and how they form cultural agency in protest movements, suggesting they create monuments of absence during oppressive times.
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.
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