1st Edition

Public Space Democracy Performative, Visual and Normative Dimensions of Politics in a Global Age

Edited By Nilüfer Göle Copyright 2022
324 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

Nilüfer Göle

Part I: Public Agency as a New Form of Protest

1. Public Space Democracy, Assembly and Creativity

Nilüfer Göle

2. What Theory for the New Protest Movements?

Boyan Znepolski

3. Embedding the Prefigurations of Gezi Protests: The Rhizomatic Spread of New Subjectivities and Politicized Identities

Baran Alp Uncu

4. Çarşı in the Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul: New Forms of Public Agency in a Square Movement

Gökçe Tuncel

5. Protest Repertoires During Ukraine's Euromaidan: Historical Traditions, Memory Politics and New Public Agency

Tom Junes

6. Transmuting Civic Horizontality of 15M into Civil Verticality in Spain: Collective Presences and Representative Governance

Pablo Ouziel

Part II: Public Culture and Norm Conflicts

7. Manaf Halbouni’s Monument Installation in Dresden (2017): Contesting Memories and the Politics of Art

Sarah Dornhof

8. The Case of MF Husain in Democratic India: Art, Politics and Offence

Peter Ronald Desouza

9. Da’wa Through Conviviality and Arts in Molenbeek: Beer, Coffee and the Frictions of the Public.

Nadia Fadil and Maryam Kolly

10. The Case of AKM Building in Istanbul: Public Sphere Under (Re)Construction

Zeynep Ugur

Part III: Public Memory, Monuments and Art Forms

11. Sites, Selfies, and Contemporary Transnational Commemoration

Mechtild Widrich

12. The Armenian Cultural Heritage and Architecture in Turkey: The Emergence of Plural Memories in the Public Space

Nazli Temir

13. Martyr Iconography in Post-War Iran: When Public Memorialization Leads to Grieving Obstruction

Parand Danesh

14. Contemporary Artists on the Traces of the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia: Memory Debates and Public Space

Ina Belcheva

Part IV: Public Transgressions and Artistic Interventions

15. Art for Demos

Erdag Aksel

16. Aesthetic Struggles in Algiers (1988–2018)

Mustapha Benfodil

17. Mutterzunge, the Silence in the Park

Misal Adnan Yildiz

18. From Maydan-Kiev to University of Salah Adin in Iraq

Emeric Lhuisset

19. How Visual Artwork Publicise Forgotten Memories?

Ali Akay

Biography

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 Europe’s Public Sphere and the editor of Islam and Public Controversy in Europe.