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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProtest Camps in International Context : Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance
EditorsGavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, Patrick McCurdy
Number of pages17
PublisherPolicy Press
Publication date29.03.2017
Pages53-69
ISBN (Print)9781447329411
ISBN (Electronic)9781447329435
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Publication statusPublished - 29.03.2017
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Sociology - Gezi Park, Istanbul, emergent infrastructure, materiality