Description: Further DetailsTitle: Gaining FreedomsCondition: NewSubtitle: Claiming Space in Istanbul and BerlinAuthor: Berna TuramFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 080479362XEAN: 9780804793629ISBN: 9780804793629Publisher: Stanford University PressGenre: Law & PoliticsRelease Date: 04/08/2015Description: Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban contestation. Cities are often assumed hotbeds of socio-economic division, but this assessment overlooks the importance of urban space and the everyday activities of urban life for empowerment, emancipation, and democratization. Through proximity, neighborhoods, streets, and squares can create unconventional power contestations over lifestyle and consumption. And through struggle, negotiation, and cooperation, competing claims across groups can become platforms to defend freedom and rights from government encroachments. Drawing on more than seven years of fieldwork in three contested urban sites—a downtown neighborhood and a university campus in Istanbul, and a Turkish neighborhood in Berlin—Berna Turam shows how democratic contestation echoes through urban space. Countering common assumptions that Turkey is strongly polarized between Islamists and secularists, she illustrates how contested urban space encourages creative politics, the kind of politics that advance rights, expression, and representation shared between pious and secular groups. Exceptional moments of protest, like the recent Gezi protests which bookend this study, offer clear external signs of upheaval and disruption, but it is the everyday contestation and interaction that forge alliances and inspire change. Ultimately, Turam argues that the process of democratization is not the reduction of conflict, but rather the capacity to form new alliances out of conflict.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 476gRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Gaining Freedoms
Title: Gaining Freedoms
Subtitle: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin
ISBN-10: 080479362X
EAN: 9780804793629
ISBN: 9780804793629
Genre: Law & Politics
Release Date: 04/08/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Gaining Freedoms : Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Urban & Land Use Planning, Political Process / General, Sociology / General, World / European, World / Middle Eastern, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Architecture, Social Science
Author: Berna Turam
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
