... Gezi protests political depression coup attempt authoritarianism vulnerability ...

... This Coda elaborates on the changing forms and meanings of violent intimacies in trans lives in the ongoing sociopolitical transformations in Turkey especially since the Gezi protests in 2013 and the coup-attempt in 2016. In the post-coup-attempt period, the sociopolitical environment in Turkey...

..., in particular the language of texting, was credited by middle-class actors for mobilizing the crowd in support of the coup. But this chapter also looks at how the crowd eluded middle-class attempts at commanding and instrumentalizing their energies. Instead of serving, like the cell phone, as the ready medium...

... in the literature, between “resident” and “worker.” In addition, the chapter discusses attempts by separatist movements in São Miguel Paulista to secede from the city of São Paulo. Feeling abandoned by the government, these movements believed that the transformation of the neighborhood into an autonomous city could...

... distinct but related media: the cell phone and the crowd. Cell phones, in particular the language of texting, was credited by middle-class actors for mobilizing the crowd in support of the coup. But this chapter also looks at how the crowd eluded middle-class attempts at commanding and instrumentalizing...

... of fieldwork for espionage; and anthropologists conducting fieldwork in settings where U.S.-backed coups occurred. The 1950 murder of former OSS anthropologist Raymond Kennedy in postcolonial Indonesia is examined in light of newly discovered documents establishing that the Wenner-Gren Foundation funded CIA...

... without Lenin’s leadership followed the Mensheviks in support for the new Provisional Government. The Leninist application of the United Front in defending the Provisional Government from a right-wing coup is also discussed, and the critical role of Lenin himself to the development of Bolshevism...

... Villarroel convened the first Indigenous Congress in early 1945. The congress, which assembled some 1,500 indigenous peasant delegates, can be seen as a populist attempt by the state to coopt peasant social forces. But it led to important legal reforms, the most dramatic of which was the abolition...