Gezi Park Revolts: For or Against Democracy?

Author(s): Atilla Yaila

In: Insight Turkey, Vol 15, No 4 (Fall), 2013, pp. 7-18

Critical examination of the multiplicity of the Gezi movement, the underlying factors and its repercussions . The author stresses the degree of violence and claims ‘the broader Gezi Park agenda represented a fundamentally Kemalist reaction against democracy’, citing the role of the Republican People’s Party as supporting evidence.

Available online at:

http://www.insightturkey.com/gezi-park-revolts-for-or-against-democracy/articles/1364

CORE: A Study on the Civil Rights Movement 1942-1968

Author(s): August Meier, and Elliot Rudwick

Illini Books, Urbana IL, 1975, pp. 563

Originally published: 1973

Extensive analysis of rise and fall of CORE drawing on interviews with key members and CORE archives. Covers the 1960 sit-ins, 1961 Freedom Ride, mass campaigns in 1963 to desegregate Southern cities, and the impact of black power ideology.

A Scuola Di Antimafia

Editor(s): Augusto Cavadi

Edizioni Di Girolamo, Trapani, 2007, pp. 294

This work comprises a theoretical discussion and proposed methodological tools for establishing a critical and comprehensive anti-mafia educational programme. It’s divided into five parts: theoretical aspects of anti-mafia education; pedagogical approaches; practical experiences; law procedures; available bibliographies on the topic.

Strappare Una Generazione Alla Mafia. Lineamenti Di Pedagogia Alternativa

Author(s): Augusto Cavadi

Edizioni Di Girolamo, Trapani, 2005, pp. 191

In this work, Cavadi argues that the anti-mafia movement should be as organised as mafia organisations are. He proposes that alongside the repressive forces of police and policing institutions, a predominant and pedagogical role should be fulfilled by schools, churches and social organisations and should aim at counterposing a moral and intellectual form of resistance to the mafia phenomenon.

Liberarsi Dal Dominio Mafioso

Author(s): Augusto Cavadi

Edizioni Dehoniane, Bologna, 1993, pp. 47, pb

By recalling the trauma that society suffered following the homicides by the mafia organisation Cosa Nostra that took place in the Italian island of Sicily in 1992 - which involved more than 20 victims, including the judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, their security and mafia informers -, Cavadi introduces some reflections on how every part of civil society is responsible for building a different society. He discusses the importance of awareness of how mafia works, alongside the importance of adopting a particular ideological, ethical, political, economic, and pedagogic orientation to solidify a strong anti-mafia movement.

Freedom from Fear and Other Writings

Author(s): Aung San Suu Kyi

Editor(s): Michael Aris

Vintage Books, London, 1991, pp. 338

See especially Suu Kyi’s writings on the democracy struggle in ‘Part II’, pp. 167-237, and essays by Josef Silverstein. ‘Aung San Suu Kyi: Is she Burma’s woman of destiny?’, pp. 267-83 and Philip Kreager, ‘Aung San Suu Kyi and the peaceful struggle for human rights in Burma’, pp. 284-325.

See also: Aung San Suu Kyi, The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements, London, Penguin, 1997 , pp. 301 , with contributions by U Kyi Maung and U Tin Oo, London, Penguin, 1997, pp. 301.

Rethinking Japanese Feminisms

Editor(s): Julia Bullock, Ayako Kano, and James Welker

Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 2018, pp. 288

This book draws on a wide range of academic disciplines to present the very diverse nature of feminist thought and activism in Japan since the early 20th century. It covers employment, education, literature and the arts, as well as feminist protests and initiatives. The book includes ideas and approaches adopted by a range of cultural and socio-political groups that have not bee labeled feminist, but which have promoted ideas and values close to feminism. It also examines important aspects of feminist history to challenge the mainstream interpretation of them.

Gezi Park protests in Turkey: new opportunities, old boundaries?

Author(s): Ilker Atac, and Ayse Dursun

In: Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Politikwissenschaft, Vol 42, No 4, 2013, pp. 443-450

The article deals with the Gezi Park protests against the demolition of a public park in Istanbul in May 2013, which turned into nationwide protests against the government.  One source of these protests can be located in the conservative-religious neo-liberalism of the ruling AKP. The fundamental thesis  of the authors defines the protests as an expression of a search for new spheres and forms of participatory politics, as an alternative to institutional structures.

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Author(s): Azar Nafisi

Harper Perennial, London, 2008, pp. 347

Originally published: 2003

A study of quiet resistance through a women’s group reading forbidden western literature. Also includes autobiographical insights into the 1977-79 Iranian revolution – its early stages and aftermath.

Feminism is African, and other implications of reading Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí as a relational thinker

Author(s): Azille Coetzee

In: Gender and Women’s Studies, Vol 1, No 1, 2018, pp. 1-16

The author interprets the work of Nigerian feminist scholar Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí to be embedded in a relational understanding of subjectivity, as developed in African philosophy, that is deeply relational, fluid and non-dichotomous and therefore not reducible to the strict, essentialised, hierarchical and stable gender dyad of the colonial Western gender system.

African Feminism As Decolonising Force: A Philosophical Exploration Of The Work Of Oyeronke Oyewumi

Author(s): Azille Coetzee

Vol Doctor of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, 2017, pp. 171

In this work the author presents the work of Nigerian feminist sociologist, Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí, as a decolonising force having the power to disrupt sub-Saharan African philosophy, Western feminist thought and discourses on African decolonisation in highly significant and surprising ways.

Available online at:

https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/102695

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