53 FOUR Emergent infrastructures: solidarity, spontaneity and encounter at Istanbul’s Gezi Park uprising Özge Yaka and Serhat Karakayali Introduction Encampments have become a highly visible and frequently utilised protest practice in the repertoire of contemporary social movements. While the practice of protest camping spans the globe, academics have only recently begun to study the spatial and performative dimensions of protest practice. In their pioneering study Feigenbaum, Frenzel and McCurdy (2013) pay special attention to the infrastructures of
245 THIRTEEN The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey Tolga İslam and Bahar Sakızlıoğlu Introduction The gentrification literature has long been dominated by studies of gentrification in Western European and North American cities (Lees, 2012). In addition, investigations and conceptualisations of gentrification in the Global South have tended to make use of a conceptual toolbox developed for explaining gentrification in Anglo-American cities. This ignores the various important issues that scholars have highlighted and
Introduction More than three million Syrian migrants are now living in Turkey, escaping from the harsh conditions of war in their country ( Erdoğan, 2018 ). Many of the migrants are young people, and spatial experiences of young migrants are often different from adult experiences ( Evans, 2008 , p 1659). A particularly important youth group are Syrian students, who are the subject focus in this chapter. Syrian students have a visible presence in the social life of Istanbul and negotiate various forms of exclusion/inclusion in everyday geographies of the
69 4 ‘Others’ in diversified neighbourhoods: What does social cohesion mean in diversified neighbourhoods? A case study in Istanbul Ayda Eraydin Introduction In the past decades, major cities increased their global functions and became the core of global movements of goods, finance and human capital. As a result, they attracted people from different origins, ethnic backgrounds, religions and culture. The newcomers tended to settle in a few neighbourhoods where they mixed with people belonging to different socioeconomic statuses, occupations and
Introduction Turkey has been a rapidly urbanising country since the 1950s. Its major cities experienced massive migratory flows. 1 The share of population living in cities was only 25 per cent in 1950; this increased to 70 per cent by 2012 and it is expected to reach 85 per cent by 2050 (Balaban, 2012 ). As the economic engine of the country, Istanbul has always been an attraction point for both investments and people, and has been under constant growth pressures. The population of the city increased from 1.1 million in 1950 to 4.7 million by 1980, and
Key messages The article situates gender policy implementation in a multi-level institutional context. The article understands frames as normative and cognitive networks of discourse actors. The article suggests combining discourse network analysis with critical frame analysis. The Istanbul Convention is a rich and crucial case to study framing and implementation in multi-level contexts. Introduction Gender-based violence is a global problem. Although men accounted for more than 80 per cent of all types of intentional homicide in recent years
297 SIXTEEN Intersectional experiences of young migrant women in Istanbul Bayram Ünal As of the early 1990s, we have witnessed increasing immigration to Turkey in line with the integration of Istanbul in the globalized economy as an important node in a world-city system (Sonmez, 1995; Keyder, 1999; Gedik, 2000; Hacisalihoglu, 2000; Radikal, 2001; Sibel, 2001; Turkiye Gazetesi, 2002). As an integral part of the global capitalist system since early 1990s, Istanbul has seen an increasing informal economy due to its geographical position and generally
dealing with the issue would provide political acknowledgement of the gendered nature of violence in Europe and offer more space to develop detailed measures to prevent future violence. In the face of this normative lack of recognition regarding violence against women, the Council of Europe adopted the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention). The Convention was opened for signature on 11 May 2011 in Istanbul and was enforced from 1 August 2014. It is significant that it is the first legally binding
From the squares of Spain to indigenous land in Canada, protest camps are a tactic used around the world. Since 2011 they have gained prominence in recent waves of contentious politics, deployed by movements with wide-ranging demands for social change. Through a series of international and interdisciplinary case studies from five continents, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements’ contexts. Whether erected in a park in Istanbul or a street in Mexico City, the significance of political encampments rests in their position as distinctive spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state.
Written by a wide range of experts in the field the book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help better understanding of new global forms of democracy in action.
Drawing on the words and stories of queer Turkish activists, this book aims to unravel the complexities of queer lives in Turkey. In doing so, it challenges dominant conceptualizations of the queer Turkish experience within critical security discourses.
The book argues that while queer Turks are subjected to ceaseless forms of insecurity in their governance, opportunities for emancipatory resistance have emerged alongside these abuses. It identifies the ways in which the state, the family, Turkish Islam and other socially-mediated processes and agencies can expose or protect queers from violence in the Turkish community.
