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“Sofa and Facebook or tent and Syntagma”: understanding global resistance movements from Syntagma to Tahrir
This article proposes a conceptual guideline with the objective of understanding the political, economic and social complexities of contemporary street/square protests. It will be argued that contemporary protest movements can be understood from a conceptual perspective that effectively integrates individuals (their minds and bodies) and spaces to the approach of “multitude”. This guideline consists of three moves: conceptualizing individualistic dimension; space dimension; and collective dimension. In the first section, resisting individuals as cognitive and material beings with the acknowledgement of their multiple subjectivities will be discussed. As the second pillar of the movements, the relationship between resisting individuals and space of resistance will be unpacked. It will be highlighted that the contemporary resistance movements develop a novel relationship with the space they occupy by respatializing it as “home of resistance”. Finally, the multitude approach will be discussed in relation to the radical democratic approach in order to conceptualize the collective dimension of the movements.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
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Global AffairsVolume
2Issue
1Pages
79 - 90Citation
BILGIC, A., 2016. “Sofa and Facebook or tent and Syntagma”: understanding global resistance movements from Syntagma to Tahrir. Global Affairs, 2 (1), pp. 79-90.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2016-05-09Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Global Affairs on 9 May 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/23340460.2016.1154350.ISSN
2334-0460eISSN
2334-0479Publisher version
Language
- en