Revolution
The other day I watched this video because it was spreading like wildfire (uncontained wildfire without the a wildland crew in sight) across Facebook. I usually find Russell Brand to be amusing, engaging, intelligent, and…
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Foucault’s Police
Last night, watching Gezi Park be “evacuated” by the Turkish police (Online, from the safety of my home) I finally began to physically comprehend Foucault’s ideas regarding examination and visibility. Today, reading the strong propaganda…
Romancing Resistance: the takeover
How long does it take before a motion of resistance is hijacked? Two, three days? Maybe it can live for a week. I am more skeptical than that though. I think that on the moment…
Romancing Resistance: Reflections on Istanbul Protests in 2013
One of two buses destroyed at the entrance to Gezi Park, Istanbul. On Saturday night every street leading up to Taksim square was barricaded by protesters to prevent the entrance of riot-trucks armed with water…
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An Interpretation of Istanbul’s Gezi Park Protests: Four Modern Social Theorists
What I have posted here is a paper for my modern theory course. I definitely see some areas where the paper is lacking and could be expanded, but there are some points that are beginning…
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Self-Immolation as a viable protest form in Bulgaria, 2013
Below is a paper that I wrote for my resistance and social movements course this semester. I am new to this section of anthropology, and a little insecure about it. That being said, if this…
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Sending my voice.
Everything that I am about to write is just rumors and hearsay. I don’t actually KNOW what is going on, and perhaps that is the intrigue and intensity of this moment- no one really knows.…