Authors

Kaan Ağartan

Kaan Ağartan is Associate Professor of Sociology at Framingham State University. His main areas of academic research include social movements, comparative economic and social development, and critical labor studies. His authored and co-authored publications appeared in various journals including New Global Studies, Global Labour Journal, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Sociology Compass, European Journal of Turkish Studies, New Perspectives on Turkey, and Capital and Class. He is the co-editor (with Ayşe Buğra) of Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-first Century: Market Economy as a Political Project (Palgrave, 2007). His forthcoming book Gezi: Making of a New Political Community in Turkey will be published by Edinburgh University Press.

ARTICLES BY Kaan Ağartan

  • Beyond Rebellion: Gezi as a World-Making Movement

    Beyond Rebellion: Gezi as a World-Making Movement

    A comprehensive assessment of the afterlives of the Gezi Park uprising is like fighting three battles at once.[1] The first of these battles has to do with “remembering what happened” at the park and other spaces to which its “spirit” spread. Given the complexity of concerns, resentment..