136 research outputs found
Occupy Climate Change! An Introduction
No full textThis introduction presents the Occupy Climate Change! research project, the root from which this volume has sprouted. Armiero, De Rosa and Turhan discuss the main themes addressed by the project and the contribu-tors to the volume: the (counter-)power of community led experiments, the trap of the mainstream climate change discourses and policies, and the need to repoliticizing climate adaptation and mitigation. Facing loss and damage now and not in a remote future, communities are experimenting with a wide variety of social innovations, often deeply antagonistic to top-down approaches, sometimes more inclined towards collaborations with institutions. This introduction attempts to systematize the characteristics of social innovations vs. market innovations, though, avoiding to propose any f ixed canon to evaluate grassroots experiments
A Window to Global Degrowth from Turkey:Degrowth in Turkey, Its Forms and Experiences
No full textKüçülme: Yeni Bir Çağ için Kavram Dağarcığı kitabının Türkçe edisyonunu yayına hazırlayan Bengi Akbulut ve Ethemcan Turhan, kitabın yayımlandığı 20 1 5'ten bu yana bu alanda yapılan çalışmaları ve yaklaşımları cogito için değerlendirdi. İzleyen bölümde kitabın orijinal basımının derleyicileriyle yapılan söyleşiyle fikirsel köprüler kuran Akbulut ve Turhan'ın değerlendirmeleri, hem küçülme üzerine tartışmalı noktalarda kuramsal eklemeler yapmakta hem de dünyada ve Türkiye'deki güncel gelişmeleri küçülme perspektifiyle görebilmenin bir anahtarını sunmaktadır
A Window to Global Degrowth from Turkey:Degrowth in Turkey, Its Forms and Experiences
No full textKüçülme: Yeni Bir Çağ için Kavram Dağarcığı kitabının Türkçe edisyonunu yayına hazırlayan Bengi Akbulut ve Ethemcan Turhan, kitabın yayımlandığı 20 1 5'ten bu yana bu alanda yapılan çalışmaları ve yaklaşımları cogito için değerlendirdi. İzleyen bölümde kitabın orijinal basımının derleyicileriyle yapılan söyleşiyle fikirsel köprüler kuran Akbulut ve Turhan'ın değerlendirmeleri, hem küçülme üzerine tartışmalı noktalarda kuramsal eklemeler yapmakta hem de dünyada ve Türkiye'deki güncel gelişmeleri küçülme perspektifiyle görebilmenin bir anahtarını sunmaktadır
Coal, ash, and other tales : The making and remaking of the anti-coal movement in Aliağa, Turkey
No full textIn this chapter, we take a critical look at the historical transformation of grassroots mobilization and political engagement in Aliağa in the period between these two historical moments (1990 and 2016) by using archival material from two national newspapers with wide circulation, secondary literature, and indepth interviews with some of the key actors. Aliağa appears to be a curious case for neglect in the scholarly literature on environmental activism in Turkey, a history of victories and defeats only partially told. This is particularly relevant and important since the powerful coalition that had emerged in the 1990s (formed by locals, the Green Party, the main social democratic opposition party in parliament, the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects and labor unions) fought and won a major victory giving way to the cancellation of the government’s plans and the birth of a combatant environmental movement in the region. Although it was one of the fi rst nationally debated environmental justice successes of this scale in Turkey ( Şahin, 2010 ), anti-coal movement in Aliağa still remains somewhat under-investigated in the country’s history of environmental movements. Thus, providing a micro-historical account would not only give the Aliağa anti-coal movement the due credit it deserves, but also help us illustrate the changing nature and shifting contours of environmental mobilizations in Turkey at large in a time of re-escalating authoritarianism. Since “there is not a right or wrong environmentalism, but narratives and practices of environmentalism which are historically produced” ( Armiero and Sedrez, 2014 : 11), our effort here also helps to reveal some hidden narratives and practices which are equally relevant for contemporary environmental movement in Turkey. To this end, we describe how the hegemonic state – in a counter-movement – reacted to the legal developments and the activism in Aliağa by changing the rules of the game; amending institutional and legal frameworks for investment decisions as needed, thereby speeding up and deepening neoliberal reforms. The tale of the anti-coal struggle in Aliağa presented in this chapter is important for environmental struggles in general, as it offers interesting insights into the ways environmental movements and their counter-hegemonic powers clash with, confront, and negotiate with the state just to die out and eventually be reborn.QC 20190902Part of ISBN 9781138367692; 9780429429699</p
Occupy Climate Change! An Introduction
Full text linkThis introduction presents the Occupy Climate Change! research project,the root from which this volume has sprouted. Armiero, De Rosa andTurhan discuss the main themes addressed by the project and the contributorsto the volume: the (counter-)power of community led experiments, thetrap of the mainstream climate change discourses and policies, and theneed to repoliticizing climate adaptation and mitigation. Facing loss anddamage now and not in a remote future, communities are experimentingwith a wide variety of social innovations, often deeply antagonistic to topdownapproaches, sometimes more inclined towards collaborations withinstitutions. This introduction attempts to systematize the characteristicsof social innovations vs. market innovations, though, avoiding to proposeany fixed canon to evaluate grassroots experiments
Practices of Resilience: Questioning Urban Adaptation in The Chilean Social Upsurge
No full textIn November 2019, Chile, the host country for the COP25 summit, suspended the event after weeks of street protest against the socio-environmental impacts of the extreme neoliberal policies that affect the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups of population. In cities, this results in socio-spatial and climate inequalities exacerbated by technocratic and market-driven logics that inform planning systems and urban adaptation. The social upsurge and the call for a new constitution to guarantee social justice and the protection of natural resources as a commons have intersected grassroots climate initiatives with decades-old territorial socio-environmental demands challenging institutional climate discourse. This chapter discusses how bottom-up resilience practices, such as the Chilean ecobarrios, create alternatives to neoliberal climate agendas in contested urban spaces. The case also demonstrates how the emerging Latin American debate about the rights of nature and buen vivir (living well) can influence urban adaptation through a postcolonial perspective
“Democracy Happens Where the People Are”
No full textThe turmoil in Turkey’s domestic politics has been exacerbating at an unforeseen pace since the Gezi protests in 2013. What made this protest period particularly remarkable was the multiplicity and diversity of youth discourses, that crossed the borders of a single issue-based opposition. The Gezi period and its aftermath in this sense can be understood as a tipping point in contemporary Turkish politics. Hence, in an attempt to understand the converging and diverging viewpoints of the young people who were the protagonists of the Gezi protests, this study utilizes Q-methodology and deciphers diverging and converging narratives of urban, secular, educated young people, who are said to have constituted the main body of protestors. Following the analysis of the primary data, the author observes three emerging discourses dominant among 21 young people (aged 20–30). The results hint at shared viewpoints on the Gezi protests as an “apolitical movement”, a “violent movement” and a “Jacobin movement”. The author argues that this divergence points at the exacerbating social polarization among youth groups in Turkey, which reached dangerous heights after the putsch on 15 July 2016.</p
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