Transenvironmental protest
The Arnavutköy anti-bridge campaign in Istanbul
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4865164 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aimilia Voulvouli (0000-0002-9659-5269, University of the Aegean, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 861-878 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2011.617170 |
| OpenAlex | W1974781953 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
In Istanbul during the late 1990s a mobilisation opposed the construction of a third bridge over the Bosphorus Strait to connect the Asian with the European shores of the city. The residents of one of two neighbourhoods over which the bridge would be placed, organised an Arnavutköy District Initiative – ASG (Arnavutköy Semt Girişimi) – claiming that the construction of the bridge would have destructive effects on the natural and cultural environment of the area. The environment is one of the central arguments around which the anti-bridge campaign revolves but closer ethnographic examination reveals that ASG is much more than an environmental group. Therefore, ASG is analysed as a transenvironmental protest, through the consideration of environmentalism as a cultural characteristic appropriated by the setting of which ASG is part. Furthermore, the transenvironmental character of ASG is discussed in relation to its activities, which render it more than a protest but also a community organisation
Archaeology · Environmentalism · Ethnography · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society
Faces of the State
Ethnography in/of the World System
The Global City
New Social Movements in Turkey Since 1980
The city and the grassroots a cross-cultural theory of urban social movements
The Making of the New Environmental Consciousness
The Interpretation of Cultures
Power, politics and environmental movements in the Third World
Acting globally, thinking locally? Prospects for a global environmental movement
Acting locally
Environmental movements, ecological modernisation and political opportunity structures
Located locally, disseminated nationally
Resisting the costs of 'development
Environmental direct action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales
Political Anthropology
Risk and Culture
Festivals, Change, and Unity
Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
Political Anthropology
Self-defeating Environmentalism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2018 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |