...Elliott Prasse-Freeman Abstract Through digital ethnography of the mass uprising against Myanmar's early-2021 military coup, this article considers appeals to “the international community,” in which activists maneuver the simultaneous potential and peril of global entreaties, deploying a double...

...Noah Arjomand This essay follows a young barber named Mehmet as he joins the Turkish military in the wake of the country’s July 15, 2016, coup attempt. Mehmet’s preconscription rituals are used as an synecdochic entry point for a discussion of masculine dignity and control over public space as key...

...Denise Gill Abstract This article provides an account of how sense experiences are drawn into processes of contest over the boundaries of citizenship and belonging. Based on ethnographic research in Istanbul and Ankara, it examines the ruptures of the 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey. Particular...

... to the United States. In the photograph, Salane's family is pictured on a grass median with an Esso gas station in the background. This picture was taken before the RAND corporation published its memorandum on the 1968 Peruvian military coup d’état, rooted in disputes over oil fields in northern Peru. Shown...

.... Such interrelations come into focus as financial traders and policymakers manufacture further instruments to capitalize on the flow of migrant-worker remittances. Violence in Honduras spiked in the aftermath of the 2009 coup d’état against the democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya. “More than any other...

... the military pervade this young man’s community in the shadow of Turkey’s most recent attempted coup, against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a conflict that pitted many civilians and civil servants against insurgents from the armed forces, often in very public displays of humiliation after the coup was put...

... a methodological insight into how and why to study the means. In the days after the coup attempt, managing dead bodies became a matter of reincorporating citizens into the body politic. Ordinarily, bodies are taken to the gasılhane (municipal washing house), where state-certified deathworkers prepare them...

... of the electorate, Turkey has witnessed four military coups, which have unseated demo- cratically elected regimes.1 On at least two of these occasions (1960 and 1997), the military justified its intervention on the grounds that the regime in power...

.... But activists do not stop taking risks because doing so would be to give up any sense of agency and to lose what matters, including oneself. Elliott Prasse-Freeman's “Bullets and Boomerangs: Proleptic Uses of Failure in Myanmar's Anti-coup Uprising” is a digital ethnography of the Civil Disobedience...

.... Lal , Victor . 1990 . Fiji: Coups in Paradise . London: Zed Books. Latour , Bruno . 1988 . The Pasteurization of France. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Ogawa , Dennis . 1978 . Kodomo no tame ni-For the Sake of the Children . Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii...

... a set of telecommunicative fantasies among middle-class TFilipinos in the context of a recent historical event: the civilian-backed coup that overthrew President Joseph Estrada in January 2001. It does so with refer- ence to two distinct media, the cell phone and the crowd. Various accounts of what...

... reacted immediately by criminalizing the petition and the petitioners. He accused the signatories of treason and terrorist propaganda and announced the launch of a criminal investigation. With the failed coup attempt of July 2016 and Erdoğan’s move to consolidate authoritarian power, mass disciplinary...

... — defected after a failed coup attempt in early 1989. In response, Habré launched attacks on the Sudanese side of the border and built surrogate forces among Darfur groups. One ethnic group native to both sides of the Chadian and 430...

... staged a coup and ousted the widely disliked Prime Minister Chatichai Choon- haven. The seventeenth coup since 1932, this one was carried out bloodlessly but not without dissent. When the National Peace-Keeping Council appointed a commit- tee...

... in Latin America adopted a puritanical style. Often, the generals justified their coups as a response to the corruption of populist politicians. Their pose of austerity occasionally extended to puerile, pater- nalistic repression that signaled their conservatism: in Argentina they banned...

... or by helping facilitate coups d’état. Because American policy tended to label as communist any resistance to the Third World governments that had formally endorsed capitalism, democracy, and alliance with the United States, Washington policy makers reduced the potential for real alliances with popular...

... manifestations, thus fracturing the newly formed class solidarity. The situation was repeated again after the popularly backed coup against President Mursi. His supporters would be accused of being “disloyal” to Egypt, indeed that they were not Egyptian at all, with claims that they were in fact Palestinians...