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States of dispossession : violence and precarious coexistence in southeast Turkey / Zerrin Özlem Biner.
LIBRA HN656.5.Z9 V527 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biner, Zerrin Özlem, author.
- Series:
- Ethnography of political violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence--Turkey.
- Political violence.
- Violence--Turkey.
- Violence.
- Ethnic conflict--Turkey.
- Ethnic conflict.
- Land tenure--Turkey.
- Land tenure.
- Social conditions.
- War and society.
- Turkey.
- War and society--Turkey.
- Turkey--Social conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 236 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "The book highlights everyday experiences in an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of dispossession and the ways people of differing religious and ethnic backgrounds remember, experience, and live with the remains of a violence that is still unfolding"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Cementing the Past with the Future: The Materiality of Stone and Concrete p. 33
- Chapter 2 Ruined Heritage p. 62
- Chapter 3 Digging with the Jinn p. 82
- Chapter 4 Living as if Indebted p. 101
- Chapter 5 Beneath the Wall Surrounding the Mor Gabriel Monastery p. 131
- Chapter 6 Loss, Compensation, and Debt p. 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812251753
- 081225175X
- OCLC:
- 1113411328
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