Public space democracy : performative, visual and normative dimensions of politics in a global age / edited by Nilufer Gole.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nil�ufer G�ole -- Public space democracy, assembly and creativity / Nil�ufer G�ole -- What theory for the new protest movements? / Boyan Znepolski -- Embedding the prefigurations of Gezi protests : the rhizomatic spread of new subjectivities and politicized identities / Baran Alp Uncu -- �Car�si in the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul : new forms of public agency in a square movement / G�ok�ce Tuncel -- Protest repertoires during Ukraine's Euromaidan : historical traditions, memory politics and new public agency / Tom Junes -- Transmuting civic horizontality of 15M into civil verticality in Spain : collective presences and representative governance / Pablo Ouziel -- Manaf Halbouni's monument installation in Dresden (2017) : contesting memories and the politics of art / Sarah Dornhof -- The case of MF Husain in democratic India : art, politics and offence / Peter Ronald Desouza -- Da'wa through conviviality and arts in Molenbeek : beer, coffee and the frictions of the public / Nadia Fadil and Maryam Kolly -- The case of AKM building in Istanbul : public sphere under (re)construction / Zeynep Ugur -- Sites, selfies, and contemporary transnational commemoration / Mechtild Widrich -- The Armenian cultural heritage and architecture in Turkey : the emergence of plural memories in the public space / Nazli Temir -- Martyr iconography in post-war Iran : when public memorialization leads to grieving obstruction / Parand Danesh -- Contemporary artists on the traces of the mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia : memory debates and public space / Ina Belcheva -- Art for demos / Erdag Aksel -- Aesthetic struggles in Algiers (1988-2018) / Mustapha Benfodil -- "Mutterzunge", the silence in the park / Misal Adnan Yildiz -- From Maydan-Kiev to University of Salah Adin in Iraq / Emeric Lhuisset -- How visual artwork publicise forgotten memories? / Ali Akay.

"This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public memory and public art, it considers the tendency of political contestations to move beyond national boundaries and create transnational connections. Departing from the approaches of social movements perspectives, it focuses on public space as a site of social 'mixity' and opens up a new field for the study of politics and cultural controversies. An analysis of the paradigmatic change in the way in which society is made and politics is conducted, this study of the new enactment of citizenship in public space will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography and politics with interests in protest movements and contentious politics, citizenship and the public sphere, and globalisation"-- Provided by publisher.