Gülçin Erdi, 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.