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Epilogue: #Occupygezi Movement and Right to the City

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In the Aftermath of Gezi

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This Chapter is based on the synthesis of the earlier chapters available in this volume. It seems that the contributors of this volume seek to answer five main questions revolving around the Gezi Protests: why it happened; what happened; where it happened; when it happened; and how it happened. Almost all the authors draw our attention to the social media, which help the protestors personalize the collective action in their life-worlds and generate a connective action, which seems to be the common denominator of all the recent global social movements ranging from Tahrir to Occupy Wall Street movement. Rather than repeating what the contributors of this volume have already said, this chapter will try to contribute to the discussion by concentrating on two threads, namely the right to the city, and the loss of trust to the government.

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Kaya, A. (2017). Epilogue: #Occupygezi Movement and Right to the City. In: Hemer, O., Persson, HÅ. (eds) In the Aftermath of Gezi. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51853-4_11

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