Resumen de Editorial Foreword
Interest in the study of space was already increasing in Middle East studies, as in other areas of scholarship, before the 2011 Arab uprisings and the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Turkey�combined with the Occupy movement in the United States and similar phenomena elsewhere�turned worldwide attention to the politics of public spaces in the era of globalization and neoliberalism. This issue of IJMES reflects both the ongoing �spatial turn� in the scholarship and the more immediate and contingent attempts, sparked by recent events, to (re-)theorize public space in particular.
