Hi all,
I also would like to recommend two readings:
1) Cihan Tuğal: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12009/occupy-gezi_the-limits-of-turkey%E2%80%99s-neoliberal-succ
2) Jay Cassano: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/11978/the-right-to-the-city-movement-and-the-turkish-sum
A video from Ankara, the capital of a supposedly democratic state yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EhCNbqY_w&feature=youtu.be
By the way a recent collaborative effort in progress to map the environmental conflicts in Turkey can also be found here:
http://www.viewdocsonline.com/document/4pro5h
Cheers,
Ethemcan
Many thanks for this Stuart and Peter. Folk might also be interested in the following piece by Caglar Keyder:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/06/03/caglar-keyder/first-person-singular/
Cheers.
mustafa
On Jun 6, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Stuart Elden wrote:
Society and Space co-editor Peter Gratton has put together five papers on Turkey - three from Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and one each from Environment and Planning A and Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy - as background reading for the current events. They include papers on shopping malls in public spaces, neoliberal reforms, architecture, community and nation-building, and state, space and subjectivity.
The five papers are open access until the end of August. You can access the papers and Peter's brief introduction here.
http://societyandspace.com/2013/06/05/the-events-in-turkey-a-virtual-theme-issue-for-background/
Professor Stuart Elden, Geography Department, Durham University
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