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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
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
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
Bir Kucaklaşmanın Mayısı
No full textChicago fabrikalarla dolu. Neredeyse şehir merkezine kadar fabrikalar var, dünyanın en uzun binasının etrafı da onlarla dolu. Chicago fabrikalarla dolu bir yer. Chicago işçilerle dolu bir yer
Dünyayı Yasunü'leştirmek - Joan Martinez Alier
No full textMayıs 2013’te uluslararası medya dünyada çok miktarda “yakılamayacak” fosil yakıt olduğu gerçeğini farketti. “Yakılamayacak” karbon, böylelikle The Economist ve New York Times’ta sıkça kullanılan bir kelimeye dönüştü. Eğer küresel petrol, doğalgaz ve kömür rezervleri şu anki hızda yakılmaya devam ederse, atmosferdeki karbon dioksit eşleniği konsantrasyonu 500 ppm (milyonda parçacık) altında tutma imkanı kalmayacak. Bu nedenle bu rezervlerin büyük bir kısmı toprağın altında kalmalı. London School of Economics’in (LSE) Grantham Enstitüsü’nce hazırlanan bir rapor 1997’den beri Oilwatch tarafından yürütülen, petrolü toprağın altında bırakma politikalarının haklı olduğunu gösteriyor ve iklim değişikliğiyle ilgili etkili bir adım atıldığı takdirde fosil yakıt rezervlerinin parasal değerlerinin zorunlu olarak düşeceğini duyuruyor. The Economist (“Unburnable Fuels” başlıklı 4 Mayıs 2013 nüshası) karbon tutma veya jeo-mühendislik gibi “teknolojik çözümleri” ise saf dışı bırakıyor
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