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This book examines civil disobedience in Turkey, from the Saturday Mothers’ silent protests to environmental sit-ins. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, it explores the power of peaceful resistance, linking local struggles to the philosophies of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
From peaceful sit-ins to enduring street vigils, Turkey’s recent history offers powerful examples of civil disobedience in the face of political and social injustice. This book examines significant cases – including the Saturday Mothers’ silent protests, environmental sit-ins, and civic resistance against authoritarian measures, to individuals, to reveal how nonviolent action is interpreted in Turkey today. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, legal records, and interviews, tracing the duration of the resistance, this study explores the elements, rule of law, democracy, and moral convictions of those who choose to resist without violence.
The study underlines Turkey’s experience within global traditions of peaceful protest, linking local struggles to the philosophies of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and other advocates of nonviolence. Accessible and deeply researched, this work is essential for scholars of political science, human rights, and modern history, as well as activists and educators seeking to understand the enduring power of peaceful resistance in a turbulent, populist and authoritarian political landscape.
This book makes a compelling case for misunderstood concepts like market socialism, a Global Marshall Plan, and world government. Blending intellectual and personal history, it is a story of steadfast determination that will resonate with every person with an idealistic vision.
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. This volume investigates the effect of the differing circumstances in these various national societies on these religious societies, and the challenges they had to overcome.
From Utah Beach to Okinawa, they braved live bombs and enemy rockets. Nine from Aberdeen is the first history of the US Army’s Bomb Disposal Branch in WWII, the courageous forerunners of today’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists.
Taking the phenomenon of public interest litigation as its primary focus, this text explores the manner in which the judicial branch of government in three East African countries has engaged with questions traditionally off-limits to adjudication and court-based resolution.
Discover the intricate geopolitics behind the Balfour Declaration. This book reveals how the interests of WWI powers intersected with the Jewish people’s march towards sovereignty, demonstrating how a precise alignment of forces altered the course of history.
Former cabinet minister and long-time Erdoğan aide Akdoğan provides valuable insights into the Turkish president’s leadership profile, and explains how he relates to centuries-old theories of leadership in Turkish and Islamic thought.
Though now predominantly Muslim, Bengal was once Buddhist. This book tells the story of successive religious and political transformations shaping Bengali Muslim identity, narrating a history from the Muslim Sultanate to the 1971 liberation war and the present day.
This collection explores creativity and the arts as vital to social movements and change. Leading academics and practitioners investigate how creative activism is deployed, taught, and critically analysed, defining the key parameters of this emerging field.
This book predicts international changes between 2013-2023. It forecasts China’s rise as a superpower, creating a bipolar world in strategic rivalry with the US. This shift will move the world’s center to East Asia, see the UK withdraw from the EU, and Russia deteriorate.
Discover how America weaponized avant-garde art as propaganda against Nazi and Soviet threats. Art became ammunition and the canvas a battlefield in the epic ideological struggle between individualism and collectivism.
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