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Au Gamin De Paris: Undoing Civilization In A Paris Bar, Catherine Tebaldi
Au Gamin De Paris: Undoing Civilization In A Paris Bar, Catherine Tebaldi
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“Don’T Sell Your Neighbor” Class, Urban Politics, And Grassroots Mobilizations In Old Town Istanbul, Berra Topçu
“Don’T Sell Your Neighbor” Class, Urban Politics, And Grassroots Mobilizations In Old Town Istanbul, Berra Topçu
CHESS Student Research Reports
The city has become the site of global movements and class struggles in the past decade. Since the Gezi uprising in the summer of 2013 in Istanbul, grassroots movements are emerging from the space of the neighborhood and the megacity in response to failures of urban governance at the level of metropolitan and local municipalities. Based on a five-month ethnographic study in a central district of Istanbul, I use participant-observation, semi-structured interviews, and media and document analysis to explore what common ground can be found in the context of: 1) official city assemblies of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality; 2) activist-led …
Activism And Ethnography In The Basque Anti-Fracking Movement, Eleanor Finley
Activism And Ethnography In The Basque Anti-Fracking Movement, Eleanor Finley
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With growing concerns in Europe over energy independence and sustainability, hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has become a recent environmental controversy across Europe. While the wealthiest member states EU such as France and Germany have implemented bans or moratoriums, the pressure to drill concentrates on peripheral debt-burdened countries such as Ireland, Romania, and Spain. Starting in 2011, a globally-networked grassroots movement emerged in response to fracking exploratory permits across the Basque-Spanish border. In the spring and summer of 2015, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Gasteiz, in the Basque Country, just as it became a hub of transnational anti-fracking …