The settlement issue in Turkey and the Kurds : an analysis of spatial policies, modernity and war / by Joost Jongerden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jongerden, Joost.

Series:

Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; v. 102.

Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, 1385-3376 ; v. 102

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurds--Turkey--Social conditions--20th century.

Kurds.

Land settlement--Turkey--History--20th century.

Land settlement.

Turkey--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In seeking to understand village evacuation in the Kurdistan region of Turkey in the 1980's and 1990's, this book focuses on the spatial aspects of the armed conflict. It tries to explain how settlement and resettlement policies and practices in Turkey have been part of a larger project of political and cultural engineering, based on a revision of a classical understanding of modernity as reflected in the work of Durkheim, Mauss, and Tönnies. This interdisciplinary perspective has allowed contributions from sociology to the political sciences and from history to social geography.

Contents:

Soldiers and settlements: Turkish counter-insurgency and the strategy of environment deprivation

Settling the Southeast: The rise and fall of a rehabilitation doctrine

The integrated settlement network: Towards a new spatial organization of the countryside

Settlement issue and settlement activities: The colonization of peoples and territories

Claiming the land: Empirical observation on the ground

Summary and conclusions

Annex: Maps of the pilot projects.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-348) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39692-7

9786612396922

90-474-2011-X

OCLC:

705005514