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The make-believe space : affective geography in a postwar polity / Yael Navaro-Yashin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Navaro-Yashin, Yael, 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and society--Cyprus.
- War and society.
- War--Psychological aspects.
- War.
- Cyprus--History--Cyprus Crisis, 1974---Public opinion.
- Cyprus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is an anthropological look at the Turkish territory of Northern Cyprus, a self-defined state, which is actually imaginary (because it is only recognized by Turkey). Navaro-Yashin surveys the affective landscape, examining the sense of haunted property and objects lost and gained in the partition, along with people s relation to the fictive remapping of places and history by this new state.
- Contents:
- The materiality of sovereignty
- Repopulating a territwsory
- The affects of spatial confinement
- Administration and affect
- The affective life of documents
- Abjected spaces, debris of war
- Affective spaces, melancholic objects
- Home, law and the uncanny
- Collectibles of war and the tangibility of affect.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613523785
- 9781280119798
- 1280119799
- 9780822395133
- 0822395134
- OCLC:
- 778786668
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