The politics of culture in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus: performing the left since the sixties

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: performing the Left in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus -- Part I Dispossession and the Left/performing memory and loss -- 1 Inhabiting the memory of political incarceration in Greece: two women's narratives from the Civil War and the Junta -- 2 Surrogate apologies, sublated differences: contemporary visions of post-national futures in Turkey under the spectre of the Left -- 3 Repositioned/re-signified: echoes of violence, aporias of solidarity across Cyprus, Turkey and Greece -- Part II Contested performances/art as politicising culture -- 4 Sounds of resistance: performing the political in the Kurdish music scene -- 5 Encounters betwixt and between: contemporary art curatorial performances and the Left in the Republic of Cyprus -- 6 Lost images, silenced past: rethinking the film practices of Genç Sinema (Young Cinema) from 1968 to 1971 -- Part III Cultures of the Left between 'traditions' and 'modernities' -- 7 The Left of the everyday: Cypriot narratives of indigenous modernisation, geopolitics and visions of emancipation -- 8 'We are and we remain Greeks': the radical patriotic discourse in Pyrsos magazine in the GDR, 1961-68 -- 9 Collective and counter-memory: the 'invention of resistance' in the rhetoric of the Greek and Turkish Left, 1951-71 -- Part IV Performing space, un/doing boundaries -- 10 Revolutionary ethics: relations between Leftist militants and gecekondu dwellers in Istanbul, 1975-80 -- 11 Radicalising no-man's land: the Occupy Buffer Zone Movement in Cyprus -- 12 Performing 'culture', becoming Left: Greek university students in pursuit of 'autonomy' -- Beyond concluding