Emergent Repertoires of Resistance and Commoning in Higher Education: The Solidarity Academies Movement in Turkey

Esra Erdem / Kamuran Akın / South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (1): 145–163.

This article addresses the current restructuring of academia in Turkey through the example of the Academics for Peace petition and the institutional mechanisms of repression it instigated. We focus on the Solidarity Academies as alternative spaces of education and a unique form of collective resistance against the academic purges. We provide an empirically informed analysis of Solidarity Academies as spaces of commoning, the collective production and sharing of knowledge by emergent communities of struggle.