Emergent infrastructures: Solidarity, spontaneity and encounter at Istanbul's Gezi Park uprising
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Protest Camps in International Context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance. ed. / Gavin Brown; Anna Feigenbaum; Fabian Frenzel; Patrick McCurdy. Policy Press, 2017. p. 53-69.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Emergent infrastructures
T2 - Solidarity, spontaneity and encounter at Istanbul's Gezi Park uprising
AU - Yaka, Özge
AU - Karakayali, Serhat
PY - 2017/3/29
Y1 - 2017/3/29
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Sociology
KW - Gezi Park
KW - Istanbul
KW - emergent infrastructure
KW - materiality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028499348&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1332/policypress/9781447329411.003.0004
DO - 10.1332/policypress/9781447329411.003.0004
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
AN - SCOPUS:85028499348
SN - 9781447329411
SP - 53
EP - 69
BT - Protest Camps in International Context
A2 - Brown, Gavin
A2 - Feigenbaum, Anna
A2 - Frenzel, Fabian
A2 - McCurdy, Patrick
PB - Policy Press
ER -