'Just a Handful of Looters!': A Comparative Analysis of Government Discourses on the Summer Disorders in the United Kingdom and Turkey
Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements: Intellectual Disobedience in Turkey and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, ss.95-115, 2015
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2015
- Doi Numarası: 10.1057/9781137473639_6
- Yayınevi: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.95-115
- Anahtar Kelimeler: broken society, enjoyment, fantasy, interest rate lobby, Lacanian theory of ideology
- Kırklareli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Mercan and Özşeker examine the discourses of the conservative-led British government and the pro-Islamic conservative Turkish government on the disorders that took place, respectively, in 2011 and 2013. The chapter argues that conservative governments in the United Kingdom and Turkey, despite different socio-cultural contexts, sought to fix the meaning of the unrests in a similar way: the marginality of attendants and the focus on a lack of morality'. The empty signifiers, that is, the 'Big Society' and a 'Great Turkey',' provided fantasmatic frames by which the two events of unrests were explained. © Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015.