Spatialities of contentious politics: The case of Istanbul’s Beşiktaş neighborhood, çArşı footfall fandom and Gezi

Eder, Mine; Öz, Özlem

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.06.008

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“…Among the three factors, 'color features' showed the highest factor loading, which indicated the significance of color design for flower borders. Color plays an important role in determining landscape preference [23,26], and it is a critical tool in conditioning, directing, and inducing specific psychological states to individuals [45]. For small-scale plant landscapes, flower borders are one of the few components with rich and varied color configurations and combinations.…”

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Effects of Visual Attributes of Flower Borders in Urban Vegetation Landscapes on Aesthetic Preference and Emotional Perception

Zhuang

Lin

Zhang

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IJERPH

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The vegetation landscape in urban green space has been shown to provide great psychological benefits to people. Flower border is a well-designed small-scale vegetation landscape with the advantages of color and vegetation richness. This study focused on the effects of the visual attributes of flower borders on the aesthetic preference and emotional perception. The face recognition measurement method was used to obtain the emotional perception and the questionnaire survey method was used to measure the aesthetic preference. The results indicated the following: (1) regarding the ‘color features’ factor, high proportions of cool color and green vegetation significantly increased aesthetic preference and emotional valence, while the proportion of warm color had a negative effect on valence; (2) the ‘visual attractiveness’ (color brightness, and visual richness) and ‘color configuration’ (number of plant patches and number of color hues) factor was positively associated with aesthetic preference and emotional valence; (3) aesthetic preference was significantly related to emotional valence; (4) males expressed higher aesthetic preference and valence for flower border images than females. The results are expected to improve the aesthetic quality of flower borders and to promote public emotional health through the effective design of urban vegetation landscapes.

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Section: Relationship Between Visual Factors and Aesthetic Preference And Emotional Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of Visual Attributes of Flower Borders in Urban Vegetation Landscapes on Aesthetic Preference and Emotional Perception

Zhuang

Lin

Zhang

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“…This study emerges out of long-term fieldwork with UJM, focusing on practices, experiences, and socio-spatial transformations of the activist group from an ethnographic perspective (see Figure 1). The main objective was to become a part of the community as much as possible and to gain the opportunity to observe it from the inside (Denzin and Lincoln 2008;Whitehead 2005). In-depth interviews, observation via participation, and field notes generated the main data pool.…”

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In Search of Free Spaces to Breathe: Turkey's United June Movement, Social Uprising, and Spatial Maintainability

Çömlekçi

Güney

2023

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This study examines the socio‐spatial practices of the United June Movement (UJM), a grassroots movement that drew inspiration from the neighbourhood forums of the Gezi Park protests. We argue that the counter‐sites of politicisation and symbolic places engraved on the social movements’ memory formed the socio‐spatial base of solidarity networks and the long‐term political organising of UJM. Secondly, we suggest that in an authoritarian context, activist organisations nourishing from full‐scale protests such as UJM need to form, reshape, and sustain free spaces where they feel protected. For testing these arguments, we designed fieldwork around UJM with an ethnographic approach. We concluded that the desire for social change has the potential of generating alternative visions in a spatiotemporal context, but in the medium term, it can turn into a feeling of self‐enclosure or being besieged. Even so, such attempts leave a perpetual legacy, tagged to certain spaces and geographies.

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“…While the role that the football chants play in the political protests is established by several researchers (Turan and Özçetin, 2019;Eder and Öz, 2017;Battini and Koşulu, 2017 among others), chanting and its socio-political roots in Turkey have rarely been the centrepiece of a research. In one of the few exceptions, Nuhrat (2017, 26-27) shows the gendered nature of chanting in stands in Turkey, claiming the chants are used to present masculine gendering of positive characteristics, like fairness.…”

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Fight ‘acceptable’ with ‘acceptable:’ football, cultural battle in Turkey and the story of two ‘doxas’ over an old military song

Irak

2020

Sport in Society

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Fight "acceptable" with "acceptable:" Football, cultural battle in Turkey and the story of two "doxas" over an old military song Football has become a politico-cultural battlefield in Turkey since the early 2010s, as the Islamistpopulist Prime Minister (and then President) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a new project called the "New Turkey" (Carney 2019, 140) aiming to create a cultural domination of "pious, vengeful generations," (Pekerman 2017,310) after having eliminated his Kemalist rivals within the State. This campaign openly targeted secular lifestyles that dominate sociocultural activities in metropolitan cities like Istanbul or Izmir, which envisaged policies like the restrictions in alcohol sale and the abortion ban (Özdemir 2015, 250), as well as the suppression of free speech, press freedom and Internet freedom (Kemahlıoğlu 2015, 447). These autocratic tendencies triggered an outrage among urban, secular, middle classes, who have traditionally been the cultural capital owners within the country. The growing discontentment among these groups reached its climax in 2013, as millions took over streets because of the police violence and media gag orders that were caused by the protests against an urbanisation project at Gezi Park, downtown Istanbul. Football fans proved to be instrumental in the popularisation of the Gezi Protests, as thousands of otherwise antipolitical Istanbulites participated in the events, donning jerseys of their favourite football clubs. The biggest football clubs of the city, Beşiktaş, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, are each based in the secular middle-class neighbourhoods of Istanbul, and have been intertwined with the Turkish modernity, even before the Republic of Turkey was founded. These clubs, founded by the "Young Turks" in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, have always represented founding elements of modern Turkey (Irak and Polo 2018, 660), even though their popularity has since expanded to all over the country and the diaspora communities abroad, having reached people from all walks of life. Furthermore, the fandom practices of these clubs' fans have been dictated by the lifestyle in the cosmopolitan and secular neighbourhoods of Istanbul that engendered the clubs. These practices, including football chants repurposed as anti-police violence slogans, functioned as the humorous, popular facet of the anti-governmental movement (Turan and Özçetin 2019, 209), also legitimising protests in the eyes of thousands who had never joined a political protest before, as participation to active politics by ordinary citizens has been socially unwelcome since the political violence period in the 1970s.The Erdoğan regime attempted to employ several measures to the vocal dissidence of football fans after the Gezi Protests. The measures included the creation of pro-governmental fan groups (which were short-lived), support to pro-governmental clubs financed by the ruling party-run municipalities, and putting fan leaders who participated in the protests on trial, accused of "staging a coup d'...

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Spatialities of contentious politics: The case of Istanbul’s Beşiktaş neighborhood, çArşı footfall fandom and Gezi

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Effects of Visual Attributes of Flower Borders in Urban Vegetation Landscapes on Aesthetic Preference and Emotional Perception

Effects of Visual Attributes of Flower Borders in Urban Vegetation Landscapes on Aesthetic Preference and Emotional Perception

In Search of Free Spaces to Breathe: Turkey's United June Movement, Social Uprising, and Spatial Maintainability

Fight ‘acceptable’ with ‘acceptable:’ football, cultural battle in Turkey and the story of two ‘doxas’ over an old military song

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