Public Space Democracy

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.

Examining the transformation of contemporary public space by social actors in their enactment of new forms of politics and citizenship, this volume explores the globalisation of civil society over the last decade, as protest movements reach beyond national boundaries to create transnational connections.

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. Çar¿¿ 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?