Capricious borders : minority, population, and counter-conduct between Greece and Turkey / Olga Demetriou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demetriou, Olga.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Greece.

Minorities.

Minorities--Turkey.

Greece--Boundaries.

Greece.

Turkey--Boundaries.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Borders of states, borders of citizenship, borders of exclusion. As the lines drawn on international treaty maps become ditches in the ground and roaming barriers in the air, a complex state apparatus is set up to regulate the lives of those who cannot be expelled, yet who have never been properly 'rooted'. This study explores the mechanisms employed at the interstices of two opposing views on the presence of minority populations in western Thrace: the legalization of their status as établis (established) and the failure to incorporate the minority in the Greek national imaginary. Revealing t

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; CHAPTER 1 COTTON, TOBACCO, SUNFLOWERS; CHAPTER 2 HERITAGE, HISTORY, LEGACIES; CHAPTER 3 COUNTER-BORDERING; CHAPTER 4 NAMING AND COUNTER-NAMES; CHAPTER 5 THE POLITICS OF GENEALOGY; CHAPTER 7 THE SELF-EXCLUDING COMMUNITY; CHAPTER 8 THE POLITICAL LIFE OF MARRIAGE; CONCLUSION BEING POLITICAL; POSTSCRIPT BORDER LIVES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-211) and index.

ISBN:

9780857458995

085745899X

OCLC:

855505450