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Imagination as Appropriation

Student Riots and the (Re)Claiming of Public Space

Binghamton University

Analyzing the spatial genealogy of the student riots in May 1960 in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, this article investigates the relation between space and identity politics. Besides the social practices it contains, the "publicness" of space is also marked by the meanings and values attributed to the space by various social actors. The political participation of the social groups in public sphere becomes possible through spatial appropriation, which does not only mean the practical occupation of space but also the appropriation of the image of the (public) space. In the context of Ankara, the student riots transform Kzlay Square, which had been the prestigious center of a wealthy neighborhood, into a site of contesting spatial imageries and social identities.

Key Words: politics of urban space • representations of space • appropriation of space • Kzlay Square

Space and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 3, 261-275 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1206331203251707


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