New paper publication on “The Gezi Park Resistance from an Environmental Justice and Social Metabolism Perspective”

New paper publication on “The Gezi Park Resistance from an Environmental Justice and Social Metabolism Perspective”

Co-authored by Begüm Özkaynak, Cem İskender Aydιn, Pιnar Ertör-Akyazι & Irmak Ertör, this article on the Gezi Park resistance was published this January 2015 in the Capitalism Nature Socialism journal.

“The aim of this commentary is threefold: First to link the Gezi Park case to other environmental conflicts and resistance movements in Turkey over urban enclosures, mega-projects, mining, energy projects, and environmental degradation […] Second, to situate these environmental conflicts, including the Gezi Park resistance, within the broader context of Turkey’s structural change, economic growth dynamics, and social metabolism. And third, to discuss longer-term effects of the Gezi protests on the dynamics of environmental politics in Turkey”.

Download a copy of the paper here.