Authors

Zeynep Gambetti

 

Zeynep Gambetti is associate professor of political theory at Boğazici University. She is the co-editor of Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era (New York University Press, 2013).

ARTICLES BY Zeynep Gambetti

  • Occupy Gezi as Politics of the Body

    Occupy Gezi as Politics of the Body

    Since the Gezi resistance started with bloodshed on 31 May, it has had an “anti-depressant” effect, as a friend of mine puts it, as much as it has been nerve-racking. During this period where each day has been prone to new crises and normalcy was completely disrupted, we simultaneously experienc..

  • The Gezi Resistance as Surplus Value

    The Gezi Resistance as Surplus Value

    Was it a few trees, was it the Turkish Spring, or was it a nationalist reflex? Attempts to label and appropriate the surplus value created at Gezi Park in Istanbul demonstrate that it will indeed be very difficult to subsume the mass of energy generated there under existing perceptional categori..