"This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public memory and public art, it considers the tendency of political contestations to move beyond national boundaries and create transnational connections. Departing from the approaches of social movements perspectives, it focuses on public space as a site of social ""mixity"" and opens up a new field for the study of politics and cultural controversies. An analysis of the paradigmatic change in the way in which society is made and politics is conducted, this study of the new enactment of citizenship in public space will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography and politics with interests in protest movements and contentious politics, citizenship and the public sphere, and globalization."
Introduction; Part I: Public Agency as a New Form of Protest; 1. Public Space Democracy, Assembly and Creativity; 2. What Theory for the New Protest Movements?; 3. Embedding the Prefigurations of Gezi Protests: The Rhizomatic Spread of New Subjectivities and Politicized Identities; 4. Çarşı in the Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul: New Forms of Public Agency in a Square Movement; 5. Protest Repertoires During Ukraine's Euromaidan: Historical Traditions, Memory Politics and New Public Agency; 6. Transmuting Civic Horizontality of 15M into Civil Verticality in Spain: Collective Presences and Representative Governance; Part II: Public Culture and Norm Conflicts; 7. Manaf Halbouni’s Monument Installation in Dresden (2017): Contesting Memories and the Politics of Art; 8. The Case of MF Husain in Democratic India: Art, Politics and Offence; 9. Da’wa Through Conviviality and Arts in Molenbeek: Beer, Coffee and the Frictions of the Public; 10. The Case of AKM Building in Istanbul: Public Sphere Under (Re)Construction; Part III: Public Memory, Monuments and Art Forms; 11. Sites, Selfies, and Contemporary Transnational Commemoration; 12. The Armenian Cultural Heritage and Architecture in Turkey: The Emergence of Plural Memories in the Public Space; 13. Martyr Iconography in Post-War Iran: When Public Memorialization Leads to Grieving Obstruction; 14. Contemporary Artists on the Traces of the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia: Memory Debates and Public Space; Part IV: Public Transgressions and Artistic Interventions; 15. Art for Demos 16. Aesthetic Struggles in Algiers (1988–2018); 17. Mutterzunge, the Silence in the Park; 18. From Maydan-Kiev to University of Salah Adin in Iraq; 19. How Visual Artwork Publicise Forgotten Memories?
Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. She is the author of The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam and Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe, Islam and Secularity: The Future of Europe’s Public Sphere and the editor of Islam and Public Controversy in Europe.
