@article{article_1653007, title={Can Climate Change Adaptation Practices Be Read As Everyday Resistance?: The Acts of the Civil Initiatives in Türkiye}, journal={Akdeniz İnsani Bilimler Dergisi}, volume={15}, pages={209–223}, year={2025}, DOI={10.13114/mjh.1653007}, author={Ertan, Cihan}, keywords={Climate change, adaptation, everyday resistance, environment.}, abstract={The primary aim of this article is to assess the practices of civil environmental initiatives in Türkiye from the conceptual framework of everyday resistance. By doing this, the article draws on a framework used for a systemic analysis of everyday resistance in resistance studies, which consists of (1) repertoires of everyday resistance in relation to particular configuration of power; (2) relations of actors, (3) the temporalization of everyday resistance; and (4) the spatialization of everyday resistance. The data of the study were obtained from 16 pro-environmental civil initiatives through in-depth interviews and analyzed using qualitative data analysis software ATLAS.ti. The results of the study reveal that the everyday practices of the participants in the study to mitigate climate change can be considered as everyday resistance, since at all levels of the quadruple framework used in the analysis process, the common fact is that they seek to suggest and construct an alternative social reality that contrasts with and resists to the existing socio-economic codes. Based on the findings, it can also be concluded that these everyday practices of the resistance actors to mitigate climate change should be understood not only as a form of resistance, but also as contributions to the political process concerning climate change crisis.}, number={1}, publisher={Akdeniz University}