Abstract
Making sense of the protests in Turkey (and Brazil): Urban Warfare in “Rebel Cities”
Highlights
Many mainstream accounts of the recent Taksim-Gezi park protests have made references to the so-called Arab Spring events in Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries
It is no coincidence that the demonstrations started and concentrated in Istanbul, the largest and the most developed urban centre in Turkey
David Harvey describes this as “it is the metropolis that constitutes a vast common produced by the collective labor expended on and in the city
Summary
Many mainstream accounts of the recent Taksim-Gezi park protests have made references to the so-called Arab Spring events in Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. It is no coincidence that the demonstrations started and concentrated in Istanbul, the largest and the most developed urban centre in Turkey. David Harvey describes this as “it is the metropolis that constitutes a vast common produced by the collective labor expended on and in the city.
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