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Title
Author
Nilüfer Göle
Institution
Ecole des Hautes
Abstract
The Occupy Gezi movement has been a staging ground for the creativity of micro-practices, and it embodies the importance of the politics of everyday life. The claim to protect the park is not merely metaphorical. The park signifies the physicality of the public sphere. Ideally it is the concrete space, open space for citizens where they can manifest freely their presence and interact with each other. The public square Gezi movement represents a new threshold for democracy where old cleavages between authoritarian secularism and Islam are surpassed and new forms of citizenship are rehearsed. The Gezi Park movement opened up a new arena of creative experience and provided a home for democratic imaginaires growing and resonating from Istanbul, Turkey.
Date of Publication
Recommended citation
Göle, Nilüfer. “‘Gezi’ – Anatomy of a Public Square Movement.” Insight Turkey, vol. 15, no. 3, 2013, pp. 7–14.
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