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Restructuring the Skies: The Post-pandemic Shift in Argentine Aviation Labour Relations

In Perspective The airline industry has only just recovered from its most severe crisis in history: the COVID-19 pandemic. For cabin crew workers in particular, the sectorial restructuring following LATAM Airways’ departure and the changes in the aeronautical regulations in 2021 marked a shift in labour relations and working standards

“Revolution can happen even if people do not think about it” — an interview with Asef Bayat

Interview This interview with Professor Asef Bayat discuss the characteristics of twenty-first-century revolutionary movements and their conditions of possibility in the future and highlights the impact of global political shifts on revolutionary activism

By Firoozeh Farvardin

“We Need a Flood!” – A Young and Independent Union’s Struggle in and through Waves of Local Strikes

Interview In this interview, we talk to Mehmet Türkmen, President of the United Textile, Weaving and Leather Workers’ Union (Birtek-Sen), which is an independent trade union founded in Gaziantep, one of Turkey’s major textile centres, at the beginning of 2022. Since its establishment, Birtek-Sen has played a critical role in numerous strikes, particularly in Gaziantep

By Onur Can Taştan

Neoliberal Governance and the Feminist Revolution in Iran

Theory & Research The revolution in Iran can be framed as a feminist revolution also because of its form of resistance. The feminist performative/figurative dimension of the revolution, as an anonymous feminist writer and protester from Iran elaborates, is “the distinguishing feature” of the revolutionary movement that we are witnessing

By Firoozeh Farvardin

Despair and the Question of Emotional Sustainability under Authoritarianism: Insights from Turkey

Theory & Research This essay intends to shed light on the emotional life of activists and dissident publics in contemporary Turkey along with producing insights to cultivate a coping perspective against the persistence of authoritarianism and the social polarization that it breeds, which poses a critical challenge to counter-hegemonic projects

By Ülker Sözen