Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. She is the author of The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam and Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe, Islam and Secularity: The Future of Europe's Public Sphere and the editor of Islam and Public Controversy in Europe.

Introduction; Part I: Public Agency as a New Form of Protest; 1. Public Space Democracy, Assembly and Creativity; 2. What Theory for the New Protest Movements?; 3. Embedding the Prefigurations of Gezi Protests: The Rhizomatic Spread of New Subjectivities and Politicized Identities; 4. Çar¿¿ in the Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul: New Forms of Public Agency in a Square Movement; 5. Protest Repertoires During Ukraine's Euromaidan: Historical Traditions, Memory Politics and New Public Agency; 6. Transmuting Civic Horizontality of 15M into Civil Verticality in Spain: Collective Presences and Representative Governance; Part II: Public Culture and Norm Conflicts; 7. Manaf Halbouni's Monument Installation in Dresden (2017): Contesting Memories and the Politics of Art; 8. The Case of MF Husain in Democratic India: Art, Politics and Offence; 9. Da'wa Through Conviviality and Arts in Molenbeek: Beer, Coffee and the Frictions of the Public; 10. The Case of AKM Building in Istanbul: Public Sphere Under (Re)Construction; Part III: Public Memory, Monuments and Art Forms; 11. Sites, Selfies, and Contemporary Transnational Commemoration; 12. The Armenian Cultural Heritage and Architecture in Turkey: The Emergence of Plural Memories in the Public Space; 13. Martyr Iconography in Post-War Iran: When Public Memorialization Leads to Grieving Obstruction; 14. Contemporary Artists on the Traces of the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia: Memory Debates and Public Space; Part IV: Public Transgressions and Artistic Interventions; 15. Art for Demos 16. Aesthetic Struggles in Algiers (1988-2018); 17. Mutterzunge, the Silence in the Park; 18. From Maydan-Kiev to University of Salah Adin in Iraq; 19. How Visual Artwork Publicise Forgotten Memories?