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The make-believe space : affective geography in a postwar polity / Yael Navaro-Yashin.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2012 Available online

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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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