To Examine the Transformation of Mourning to Protest: The Case of Saturday Mothers Movement
Journal Title: Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Mourning emerges as a social process that separates properly the relatives of disappeared people from their loss. Under normal conditions, mourning is a reasonable way to say farewell to someone. However, the fact that the loss is a result of a traumatic event causes the mourning not to be held in a usual way. The pain created by the trauma of loss and the anger triggered by this pain usually lead to the birth of a social movement. The case of Saturday Mothers Movement illustrates a mourning which held in unusual ways. In this context, as a life that has been illegitimized and excluded from legal protection, loss has caused public mourning which can not be held by families of disappeared to become a driving force for a social struggle. The relatives of the disappeared people as lives established during the mourning process, socialized their mourning with a civil disobedience movement that started from the 90’s to the day. In this process, they reveal that the individual trauma is at the core of a social issue. The Saturday Mothers Movement began with a movement of relatives of disappeared people and evolved into a human rights movement in the process is also Turkey’s long-term civil disobedience movement. The sit-ins that began on May 27, 1995 and went on today seem to be a social struggle in which relatives of disappeared turned into human rights activists. During this process, activists have been tried to restore the respect of all disappeared people. In this process, the relatives of the disappeared people turn into social actors as protesters. From this point of view, this study discusses the basic dynamics of this social struggle, its individual and social outcomes and finally the basic stages of the transition of a mourning to a protest movement.
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Ayşem Sezer Şanlı
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