The Gezi Park Resistance from an Environmental Justice and Social Metabolism Perspective

Özkaynak, Begüm; Aydın, Cem İskender; Ertör-Akyazı, Pınar; Ertör, Irmak

doi:10.1080/10455752.2014.999102

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“…; and Begüm Özkaynak, Cem İskender Aydιn, Pınar Ertör-Akyazι, and Irmak Ertör, “The Gezi Park Resistance from an Environmental Justice and Social Metabolism Perspective,” Capitalism Nature Socialism 26, no. 1 (2015): 99–114.…”

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Right here, right now: a call for engaged scholarship on climate justice in Turkey

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New Perspect. Turk.

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“…The primary group of protesters inside the Park, mainly environmental and urban activists aimed at protecting it from being transformed into an exclusive mixeduse commercial complex. As expressed in the literature, the Gezi protests became the peak of the broader urban or ecological struggle against neoliberal urbanism seen in different parts of the country (Kodalak, 2013;Özkaynak, Aydın, Ertör-Akyazı & Ertör, 2015;Harmanşah, 2014). So, the primary reason behind its occupation was the 'rights of the city' (Istanbul) against its further demolition and transformation.…”

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Urban space-making through protests

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2020

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In the last decade, the world has seen a surge of protests and social movements. Also in Turkey, a group of protesters occupied the Gezi Park in 2013 against the government's plans to transform it into a commercial complex. This paper explores the protests to advance knowledge on the relationship between urban space and protests. The paper argues that first; Gezi Park reflects variegated 'rights of, in and to the city' created through 'commoning'. Second, the Park becomes a 'socio-spatial-virtual bricolage,' which contains past and present, traditional and contemporary and global and local subjects, elements and activities and different realms such as the physical and the virtual. Finally, the paper argues that the Park reflects a new political urban space and subjectivity.

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“…Since then, the concept has been applied to a growing range of issues, including climate change and biodiversity conservation, and has encompassed aspects of recognition and procedural justice (Schlosberg 2007 ; Sze and London 2008 ; Walker 2009 ). In addition, environmental justice frameworks have increasingly been applied beyond Western liberal democracies (see, for example, McDonald 2002 ; Williams and Mawdsley 2006 ; Carruthers 2008 ; Özkaynak et al 2015 ), although rarely so in the case of China (for exceptions see Lora-Wainwright 2017 ; Ma 2010 ; Xie 2011 ). These studies show that the specific contexts in which environmental justice movements develop strongly impacts their ability to trigger broader sustainability transformations (Martinez-Alier et al 2016 ; Schneidel et al 2018 ).…”

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The quest for environmental justice in China: citizen participation and the rural–urban network against Panguanying’s waste incinerator

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Lora‐Wainwright

2018

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Environmental distribution conflicts (EDCs) related to the construction and operation of waste incinerators have become commonplace in China. This article presents a detailed case study of citizen opposition to an incinerator in the village of Panguanying, Hebei Province. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork, we show how this case was notable, because it transcended the local arena to raise bigger questions about environmental justice, particularly in relation to public participation in siting decisions, after villagers exposed fraudulent public consultation in the environmental impact assessment. An informal network between villagers and urban environmental activists formed, enabling the Panguanying case to exert influence far beyond the village locality. This network was critical in creating wider public debate about uneven power and substandard public participation in siting disputes, a central feature in many Chinese EDCs. By transcending local specificities and exposing broader, systemic inadequacies, this case became instrumental in supporting “strong sustainability”.

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The Gezi Park Resistance from an Environmental Justice and Social Metabolism Perspective

Cited by 42 publications

References 19 publications

Right here, right now: a call for engaged scholarship on climate justice in Turkey

Right here, right now: a call for engaged scholarship on climate justice in Turkey

Urban space-making through protests

The quest for environmental justice in China: citizen participation and the rural–urban network against Panguanying’s waste incinerator

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