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THEORY

Literature Review

Elias Stichting, Norbert. The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2000.

Harvey, David. Social Justice and the City. Athens: Georgia University Press, 1974.

Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing, 1973.

Marx, Karl. Capital, vol. III Part VII Revenue and Their Sources: Chapter 48. The Trinity Formula. London: Penguin Group, 1991.

Marx, Karl. Grundrisse. London: Penguin Group, 1993.

Scott, James C. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. Yale University, 1990.

Scott, James C. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Yale University, 2009.

Turner, John F. C. Housing by People: Towards Autonomy in Building Environments. Great Britain: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1991.

HISTORY

BDP

Dinç, Namık Kemal, ed. Stories of Migration: One Who’s Seen Pain Doesn’t Inflict Pain Upon Others. GÖÇ-DER Migrants’ Association for Solidarity and Culture. İstanbul: Gün Matbaacılık, 2008.

Gezi Radyo. FM101.9 Taksim. June 2013. – “We are the sound of resistance.”

Gezi Postası. June 2013.

GÖÇ-DER. Migrants’ Association for Solidarity and Culture. Founded 1997.

GÖÇ-DER and European Commission Initiative for Democracy and Human Rıghts. Ed. Selahattin Güvenç. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Research for People Displaced by Force, June 2011.

Karaagac, Baris and Gaye Yilmaz. “Organized Labour in the Gezi Process: Reflections on a Popular Uprising and Weakened Organized Labor.” The Bullet: Socialist Project, No. 846. 3 July 2013.

Mehmet, Barut. “The Research and Solution Report on the Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Conditions of the Kurdish Citizens Living in the Turkish Republic Who are Forcibly Displaced Due to the Armed Conflict and Tension Politics; The Problems They Encountered Due to Migration and Their Tendencies to Return Back to the Villages.”GÖÇ-DER Migrants’ Association for Solidarity and Culture, 1991-2001.

Müştereklerimiz. June 2013.

Tugal, Cihan. “Occupy Gezi: The Limits to Turkey’s Neoliberal Success.” Jadaliyya, 4 June 2013.

Taksim Dayanişması. June 2013.

METHODOLOGY

Journal: Footnotes

Fieldwork – Participatory Action Research

Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity.

Colectivo Situaciones. “Something More on Research Militancy: Footnotes on Procedures and (In)Decisions.”

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc, 2005.

Greenwood, Davydd J. “Theoretical Research, Applied Research, and Action Research: The Deinstitutionalization of Activist Research.”

Participaction.

People’s Power and PAR.

Reclaim Istanbul:  Living in Voluntary and Involuntary Exclusion

Knowledge falls into a trap when it makes representations of space the basis for the study of ‘life,’ for in doing so it reduces lived experience. The object of knowledge is, precisely, the fragmented and uncertain connection between elaborated representations of space on the one hand and representational spaces (along with their underpinnings) on the other; and this ‘object’ implies (and explains) a subject – that subject in whom lived, perceived and conceived (known) come together within a spatial practice.

Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space. (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing, 1973), 230.

CONCEIVED

I believe that the notion of a hidden transcript helps us understand those rare moments of political electricity when, often for the first time in memory, the hidden transcript is spoken directly and publicly in the teeth of power.

James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. (Yale University, 1990), xiii.

PERCEIVED

Society is a very mysterious animal with many faces and hidden potentialities, and … it’s extremely shortsighted to believe that the face society happens to be presenting to you at a given moment is its only true face. None of us knows all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population.

Václav Havel, 31 May 31 1990

LIVED

What is mediated in the relationship between lived, perceived and conceived?

David Harvey, Social Justice and the City. (Athens: Georgia University Press, 1974), 117.

RURAL : URBAN ANALYTICS

Contradictory Space

DESIGN FRAMEWORK

People / Actors / Operations

Area of Resistance and Absolute Space (Central) Map

Land Use

 

Key Drivers of Urban Transformation

Key Drivers of Urban Transformation (Map from Reclaim Istanbul)