Book Announcement: Üniversitede Direniş ve Dayanışma

The title of the book is Üniversitede Direniş ve Dayanışma: Yıkım, Sömürü ve Sivil Ölüm Rejimine Karşı Durmak, which means Resistance and Solidarity at the University: Standing Against the Regime of Destruction, Exploitation and Civil Death. 

  • It contains 22 chapters focused on resistance and solidarity in universities in Turkey in the last 20 years. 

  • The book will be online (open access) soon. 

  • Some of the contributors now live in exile. 

The 448-page book has 5 sections focusing on the following themes:

  1. Struggles for a democratic/autonomous university

  2. Struggles against the neoliberal, precarious university regime

  3. Struggles for academic freedom

  4. Resistance and solidarity at a time of plots, purges and civil death

  5. New ways of resistance and solidarity (since 2016)


Editor’s Note:

Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu Tweets as @DirenenSerdaR - mostly in Turkish & English. He is Visiting Scholar at Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.) and a past President of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence (Division 48 of the American Psychological Association) and its current Secretary.


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