Emergent infrastructures: Solidarity, spontaneity and encounter at Istanbul's Gezi Park uprising

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The chapter analyses the role of materiality in the formation of a specific political atmosphere in Istanbul’s Gezi Park during the protests of June 2013, arguing that material infrastructures have different impacts according to the specificity of the encounter of actions, objects, spaces, and affects that produce them. In the particular case of Gezi Park, the materials, objects and infrastructures did not primarily serve to build a sustainable space of protest, but essentially functioned in relating individuals in a certain way, in creating bonds and affects and in enabling a process of emergence and recomposition. The article pays special attention to the spontaneity of the emergence of the infrastructures in Gezi Park as well as the intensified temporality of the camp in explaining the particular functions material infrastructures inhabited.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelProtest Camps in International Context : Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance
HerausgeberGavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, Patrick McCurdy
Anzahl der Seiten17
VerlagPolicy Press
Erscheinungsdatum29.03.2017
Seiten53-69
ISBN (Print)9781447329411
ISBN (elektronisch)9781447329435
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 29.03.2017
Extern publiziertJa