Gülçin Erdi Lelandais, tenured researcher at CNRS, works in research center CITERES (Cités, Territoires, Environnement, Sociétés) at the University of Tours François Rabelais. Her research interests are everyday forms of resistance and their spatial dimensions, movements against urban transformation in squatter neighbourhoods and urbanisation in Turkey. She recently published "Gezi Protests and Beyond: Urban Resistance Under Neoliberal Urbanism in Turkey" in Thörn H., Thörn C., Mayer M., Urban Uprisings. Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe, London, Palgrave, 2016.
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In Turkey's state of emergency, social media is more important than ever
Sep 28, 2016 17:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Turkey has become notorious for curtailing media freedom and jailing journalists. As well as persecuting journalists, the government often shuts down Facebook, Twitter or Youtube when street demonstrations and terrorist...
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