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History of protest spaces in İstanbul
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Fidan, Gizem; Güvenç,Himmet Murat
Main aim of this thesis is to examine evolution of protest spaces in İstanbul. While examining these spaces, I asked how social movements establish a relationship with the city and whether searching for particular spaces in which this relationship materialized can provide a new way of looking at the history of city and its transformation. For these purposes, a database of manifestations in İstanbul's public spaces have been collected from newspapers and other periodical publications. News from 1960s which can be considered as the era of new wave in street manifestations chosen as start point for archival research whereas 2010 which marks a turning point because of May 1st celebrations in İstanbul marked its ending. This data provided a base for locating distinctive protest spaces in city's borders. By using multi correspondence analysis, protests as well as their spaces, actors, dates and topics have been clustered. In order to understand the continuity and transformation, protest spaces and factors affecting their mobilization singularly examined according to location and in relation to turning points in Turkey's political history. This helped to understand mobilizations of different groups and their relation to particular protest spaces.