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Do Popular Assemblies Contribute to Genuine Political Change? Lessons from the Park Forums in Istanbul
Emel Akcali 
South European Society and Politics, Pages: 1 - 18
Swansea University Author:
Emel Akcali
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/13608746.2018.1437007
Abstract
By engaging with the ‘Gezi/June’ Uprising in Turkey and the popularassemblies formed in its aftermath, this article foregrounds the notionof agonistic pluralism as advanced by William E. Connolly and ChantalMouffe for understanding the emerging forms of direct democracyand their outcomes in Turkey....
| Published in: | South European Society and Politics |
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| Published: |
2018
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa38950 |
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By engaging with the ‘Gezi/June’ Uprising in Turkey and the popularassemblies formed in its aftermath, this article foregrounds the notionof agonistic pluralism as advanced by William E. Connolly and ChantalMouffe for understanding the emerging forms of direct democracyand their outcomes in Turkey. Via participant observation in four parkforum sites in Istanbul, in-depth interviews with the participants, anda virtual ethnography on related Facebook sites, it scrutinises thedegree to which popular assemblies resist and subvert the existingpolitical order and create alternatives for radical political change. |
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| Keywords: |
Agonistic pluralism; popular assemblies; Gezi Park; June Uprising; Turkey; AKP; right to the city |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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1 |
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18 |