'Everywhere Taksim': Sowing the Seeds for a New Turkey at Gezi

Acknowledgements ??List of Acronyms ??Introduction ??Gezi in RetrospectIsabel David and Kumru F. ToktamışBibliography ??Section?I Gezi Protests and Democratisation1 Evoking and Invoking Nationhood as Contentious Democratisation ??Kumru F. Toktamış2007 - Nation-Evoking Demonstrations ??Gezi - Summer 2013 ??Conclusion ??Bibliography ??2 'Everyday I'm Çapulling!' ??Global Flows and Local Frictions of GeziJeremy F. WaltonIntroduction: Gezi and Rumi's Elephant in the Dark ??The Politics of Public Space in Urban Turkey: Taksim Square, Proscenium of the Nation ??The Carnivalesque Citizenship of the Çapulcu ??Gezi and the Discontents of Neoliberal Globalisation ??Conclusion: Gezi and the Decoupling of Liberalism and Democracy in Turkey ??Bibliography ??3 The Incentives and Actors of Protests in Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2013 ??Ana Devic and Marija KrsticIntroduction ??Turkish Case: Political Change and Gezi Park Protests ??PROEF 2The Common Denominator of the Protests in Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina ??Conclusion ??Bibliography ??Section?II The Political Economy of Protests4 AKP Rule in the Aftermath of the Gezi Protests ??From Expanded to Limited Hegemony?Umut BozkurtUnderstanding the AKP's Hegemony ??Neoliberal Populism and the AKP Rule ??The Explosion of Social Assistance Programmes ??The Symbolic/Ideological Sources of the Party's Hegemony ??The AKP's Hegemony after the Gezi Protests ??Conclusion ??Bibliography ??5 Rebelling against Neoliberal Populist Regimes ??Barış Alp Özden and Ahmet BekmenNeoliberal Populism, AKP and PT ??Depoliticising the Question of Poverty ??Deradicalising Labour ??Preliminary Re??ections on the Protests ??Bibliography ???6 Enough is Enough ???What do the Gezi Protestors Want to Tell Us? A Political Economy Perspectiveİlke CivelekoğluRe-thinking Neoliberalism in Turkey under AKP Rule ???Re-thinking the Gezi Park Protests: What did the Protestors Actually Protest? ???Conclusion ???Bibliography ???PROEF 2Section?III Protesters and Repertoires of Protests7 'We are more than Alliances between Groups' ???A Social Psychological Perspective on the Gezi Park Protesters and Negotiating Levels of IdentityÖzden Melis Uluğ and Yasemin Gül süm AcarBackground to the Gezi Park Protests ???Social Psychological Perspectives on Collective Action ???Antecedents to Collective Action ???Creating a Group from the Crowd ???'We Are More than Alliances between Groups': An Identity-based Analysis of the Gezi Park Protest Activists ???Conclusion ???Bibliography ???8 Istanbul United ???Football Fans Entering the 'Political Field'Dağhan IrakIntroduction ???Methodology ???The Political Context of Turkish Football ???The Hyper-Commodi??cation of Turkish Football ???Politicisation of Football Fans in Turkey ???Fans' Reasons for Joining the Gezi Protests ???Discussion ???Bibliography ???9 Humour as Resistance? ???A Brief Analysis of the Gezi Park Protest Gra???tiLerna K. YanıkBackground ???What is a Gra?? ?to? The Features of the Gra???ti Collected around Gezi Park ???The Role and the Function of Gra?? ?ti and Humour: A Short Conceptual Overview ???The Gra???ti in Gezi Park: Humour or Resistance, or Humour as Resistance? ???Delivering Messages through Humour ???Erdoğan in Gra?? ?ti ???Counterstatement or Intertextual Gra???ti ???PROEF 2Conclusion ???Bibliography ???10 Where did Gezi Come from? ???Exploring the Links between Youth Political Activism before and during the Gezi ProtestsPınar Gümüş and Volkan YılmazIntroduction ???Social Movement Communities and Social Movement Spillover ???New Social Movements in Turkey ???Methodology ???Five Cross-cutting Themes ???Aversive Attitude towards Conventional Political Organisations ???Ability to Organise Horizontally and to Accommodate Individual Di?ferences ???Ability to Work with Diverse Political Groups and Cooperate with Strangers ???Ability to Transfer Protest Skills ???The Gezi Protests as a Paradigm-Shifting Event with Respect to the Older Generation's Perception of the Relationship between Youth and Politics ???Conclusion ???Bibliography ???Section?IV The Politics of Space and Identity at Gezi11 'We May Be Lessees, but the Neighbourhood is Ours' ???Gezi Resistances and Spatial ClaimsAhu Karasulu'Essentials Are Thus Cast Up': Space and Contention ???'(New Elements) Become Brie??y Visible in Luminous Transparency': Spatial Claims ???'Events Belie Forecasts': Concluding Remarks ???Bibliography ???12 Negotiating Religion at the Gezi Park Protests ???Emrah ÇelikIntroduction ???The Objects of the Protests ???PROEF 2The Place of Religion in the Protests ???The Position of Religious People in the Protests ???Democratisation vs. Polarisation ???Conclusion ???Bibliography ???13 Gezi Park ???A Revindication of Public SpaceClara Rivas AlonsoIntroduction ???The Turkish Institutional Approach to Intervention in the Urban Environment ???AKP's Neoliberal Project: Taming the Commons by Taming the City ???AKP's Reliance on the Construction Sector ???Commodi? ?cation of Culture and Monopolization of Narratives: Branding the City ???Rewriting History ???Gezi: Mapping the Space Reclaimed and the Victory of the Commons ???Gezi Protests as a Reaction against AKP Policies ???The Value of Resistance in and for a Park: Creating New Senses of Belonging ???Responses to the Militarisation of Space: The Return of the Commons ???Conclusion ???Bibliography ???Section?V Gezi in an International Context14 Gezi Spirit in the Diaspora ???Di?fusion of Turkish Politics to EuropeBahar BaserDi?fusion of Gezi Spirit to the Transnational Space ???Creating 'Gezi Parks' in Europe ???Conclusion ???Bibliography ???PROEF 215 Turkey's EU Membership Process in the Aftermath of the Gezi Protests ???Beken SaatçioğluIntroduction ???The Normative Meaning of Gezi ???Implications for Turkey-EU Relations ???Postponing Negotiations on Chapter?22 ???Negotiations on Chapter?22 and beyond ???Conclusion ???Bibliography ???List of Contributors ???