Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions
Frances S. Hasso is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at Duke University and the author of
Zakia Salime is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of
Frances S. Hasso is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at Duke University and the author of
Zakia Salime is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of
Intimate Politics of Protest: Gendering Embodiments and Redefining Spaces in Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi Park and the Arab Revolutions
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Published:September 2016
Banu Gökarıksel, 2016. "Intimate Politics of Protest: Gendering Embodiments and Redefining Spaces in Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi Park and the Arab Revolutions", Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions, Frances S. Hasso, Zakia Salime
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Chapter 8 uses the analytical tools of feminist geography to reflect on the implications presented throughout the book, as well as to examine gendered-spatial dimensions in iconic representations of the 2013 Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul. The chapter reveals the gendered and sexual politics at work in the images and accounts that have come to represent the Gezi protests. Some of these images rely on established norms and roles, but others challenge dominant understandings of femininity and masculinity. The chapter traces two themes that link the Gezi uprising to other cases examined in the volume. The first focuses on the body as an intimately political site at the experiential and representational levels. The second explores the crossing of the public/private divide and the domestication of so-called public space during the revolutions and uprisings.
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