Continuities and discontinuities in collective action during the pandemic: Urban commoning practices in the case of Ayrancı, Ankara

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This thesis examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on community level relations and the response of local neighborhood organizations to the pandemic. To this end, 22 semi-structured in-depth interviews and a focus group interview were conducted in the neighborhood of Ayrancı, Ankara with the people who actively participate in the local organization activities. While adopting the framework of Lefebvre, this thesis will focus on continuities and discontinuities in collective action in the times of Covid-19. While defining disasters as the scene of local and global politics, I will argue that although the pandemic affects social relations of community and collective action adversely, it also generates new forms of collective action, and solidarity activities on the basis of commoning practices. I will examine these collective responses as a response to the individualization of responsibility conjuncture widely used in the pandemic through the lens of self-managed commoning practices which will be defined in relation to the right to city concept and will be analyzed with the instances in Ayrancı neighborhood in Ankara as a case study.

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Covid-19 pandemic, Health, Urban Commoning, Right to the city, Ankara

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U. Yüksel, “Continuities and discontinuities in collective action during the pandemic: Urban commoning practices in the case of Ayrancı, Ankara,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.