Examining the transformation of contemporary public space by social actors in their enactment of new forms of politics and citizenship, this volume explores the globalisation of civil society over the last decade, as protest movements reach beyond national boundaries to create transnational connections.
This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public memory and public art, it considers the tendency of political contestations to move beyond national boundaries and create transnational connections. Departing from the approaches of social movements perspectives, it focuses on public space as a site of social "mixity" and opens up a new field for the study of politics and cultural controversies. An analysis of the paradigmatic change in the way in which society is made and politics is conducted, this study of the new enactment of citizenship in public space will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography and politics with interests in protest movements and contentious politics, citizenship and the public sphere, and globalization.
Introduction; Part I: Public Agency as a New Form of Protest;
1. Public
Space Democracy, Assembly and Creativity;
2. What Theory for the New Protest
Movements?;
3. Embedding the Prefigurations of Gezi Protests: The Rhizomatic
Spread of New Subjectivities and Politicized Identities;
4. Çar in the Gezi
Park Protests in Istanbul: New Forms of Public Agency in a Square Movement;
5. Protest Repertoires During Ukraine's Euromaidan: Historical Traditions,
Memory Politics and New Public Agency;
6. Transmuting Civic Horizontality of
15M into Civil Verticality in Spain: Collective Presences and Representative
Governance; Part II: Public Culture and Norm Conflicts;
7. Manaf Halbounis
Monument Installation in Dresden (2017): Contesting Memories and the Politics
of Art;
8. The Case of MF Husain in Democratic India: Art, Politics and
Offence;
9. Dawa Through Conviviality and Arts in Molenbeek: Beer, Coffee
and the Frictions of the Public;
10. The Case of AKM Building in Istanbul:
Public Sphere Under (Re)Construction; Part III: Public Memory, Monuments and
Art Forms;
11. Sites, Selfies, and Contemporary Transnational Commemoration;
12. The Armenian Cultural Heritage and Architecture in Turkey: The Emergence
of Plural Memories in the Public Space;
13. Martyr Iconography in Post-War
Iran: When Public Memorialization Leads to Grieving Obstruction;
14.
Contemporary Artists on the Traces of the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov in
Sofia: Memory Debates and Public Space; Part IV: Public Transgressions and
Artistic Interventions;
15. Art for Demos
16. Aesthetic Struggles in Algiers
(19882018);
17. Mutterzunge, the Silence in the Park;
18. From Maydan-Kiev
to University of Salah Adin in Iraq;
19. How Visual Artwork Publicise
Forgotten Memories?
Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. She is the author of The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam and Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe, Islam and Secularity: The Future of Europes Public Sphere and the editor of Islam and Public Controversy in Europe.
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