All posts by Efe Can Gürcan

Assessing Latin America’s Leftism

Efe Can Gürcan | September 21, 2017

The left’s strategic setbacks in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina since 2015 have rekindled the debate about how leftist Latin America’s governments really have been. This debate has been dominated by two broadly defined positions: Traditional-Marxist and liberal-democratic. [...]

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Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey’s Gezi Park

Efe Can Gürcan | October 20, 2014

The Gezi Park Protests (GPPs) began on May 31, 2013 as a localised demonstration against the destruction of a public park at the heart of Istanbul. It soon turned into a nationwide anti-government protest cycle of unprecedented form and scale in Turkey’s history. Our understanding of the [...]

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