Abstract
In the last decade, the world has seen a surge of protests and social movements. Also in Turkey, a group of protesters occupied the Gezi Park in 2013 against the government’s plans to transform it into a commercial complex. This paper explores the protests to advance knowledge on the relationship between urban space and protests. The paper argues that first; Gezi Park reflects variegated ‘rights of, in and to the city’ created through ‘commoning’. Second, the Park becomes a ‘socio-spatial-virtual bricolage,’ which contains past and present, traditional and contemporary and global and local subjects, elements and activities and different realms such as the physical and the virtual. Finally, the paper argues that the Park reflects a new political urban space and subjectivity.
Highlights
Cities all over the world have been shaken by protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street in the USA, and the Indignados in Spain, and the Arab Spring in the Middle East (Dikeç & Swyngedouw, 2017; Sheppard et al, 2015; Tuğal, 2013; Vasudevan, 2015; Vatikiotis & Yörük, 2016)
This paper argues that social movements and other forms of protests are entangled in urban spaces
By analysing the Gezi Park occupation, the paper aimed at exploring two things: first, at a broader level, why and how the relationship between urban space and protests is established and sustained and how urban space can become an agent in generating protests and bringing together people from diverse backgrounds
Summary
The world has seen a surge of protests and social movements. In Turkey, a group of protesters occupied the Gezi Park in 2013 against the government’s plans to transform it into a commercial complex. This paper explores the protests to advance knowledge on the relationship between urban space and protests. The paper argues that first; Gezi Park reflects variegated ‘rights of, in and to the city’ created through ‘commoning’. The Park becomes a ‘socio-spatial-virtual bricolage,’ which contains past and present, traditional and contemporary and global and local subjects, elements and activities and different realms such as the physical and the virtual. The paper argues that the Park reflects a new political urban space and subjectivity. (2019) Urban Space-Making through Protests: The Transformation of Gezi Park into a Bricolage.
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