Özge Yaka

Özge Yaka
Freie Universität Berlin | FUB · Institute of Geographical Sciences

PhD

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In the last few years, a sequence of protests and uprisings occurred across the planet from the student's movement in Chile, to the Egyptian revolution, the Spanish Indignados, Occupy Wall Street up to the Gezi Park protest in Turkey. Despite their respective singularity these events seem to reveal new practices and forms of political subjectivity....
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This article aims to contribute to the discussion on Turkish accession to the EU, asking the famous question ‘Why not Turkey?’ the other way around. ‘Why not EU?’ is the emerging question, as the alienation of Turkish government and public opinion from the EU membership objective requires urgent intellectual and political engagement. This article d...
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en This article introduces a notion of socio‐ecological justice based on theoretically informed empirical research on community struggles against run‐of‐river hydropower plants in Turkey. Framing this particular case as representative of a broader movement for environmental commons, and adopting an action‐theoretical perspective, it translates the...
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Taking a feminist-phenomenological perspective of the body, this article provides an empirically grounded analysis of the embodied subjectivity of women in the movement against hydropower plants (HPPs) in the culturally and spatially specific context of the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. Informed by a feminist engagement with Merleau-Ponty’s c...
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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 Ge...
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This chapter analyses local community struggles against small-scale, run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plants (HEPPs) in Turkey, with a focus on women’s leading role and radical activism in the movement. Drawing on the empirical case of the East Black Sea Region, the chapter explores water’s worth beyond its immediate use and symbolic value and...
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By introducing a notion of socio-ecological justice, this article aims to deepen the relationship between environment and justice, which has already been firmly established by environmental justice movements and scholarship. Based on extensive fieldwork on local community struggles against small-scale run-of-river hydropower plants in Turkey, it ex...
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Framing literature has so far failed to construct gender as an analytical category that shapes the ways in which we perceive, identify and act upon grievances. This article builds on the insights of feminist theory and employs the conceptual vocabulary of the social movement framing perspective in maintaining gender as a main parameter of framing p...
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Introduction Encampments have become a highly visible and frequently utilised protest practice in the repertoire of contemporary social movements. While the practice of protest camping spans the globe, academics have only recently begun to study the spatial and performative dimensions of protest practice. In their pioneering study Feigenbaum, Frenz...
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Protest camps are a common and recurring feature of social movements around the world. From Tahrir to Taksim, acts of occupying squares, parks and streets together, have made protest camps into a key site of democratic politics in the 21st century. Since the Arab Uprisings and Occupy movement of 2011 brought protest camps to global attention, more...
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This chapter discusses the role of humour for political protest during the Gezi events in Turkey in the summer of 2013. By drawing on diverse theoretical references ranging from Freud to Virno, it argues that humour’s particular structure allows social movements to engage in the construction of political subjectivities alternative to what the norms...

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