Phenomenology, Event, Commemoration: Conclusion

In Istanbul, City of the Fearless, I have explored the political perceptions, relationships, moods, memories, and practices of militants in Istanbul during the years before and after the military coup of 12 September 1980. Thinking from a phenomenological perspective, I described in both their and my words activists’ ordinary and extraordinary experiences of urban places, political factions, ideologies, violence, sounds, objects, events (i.e., the coup d’état), and people. By phenomenological, I simply mean an approach that identifies and analyzes certain elementary processes through which people—here activists—apprehend and engage with the meaningful environment in which they dwell. In writing