Police, provocation, politics : counterinsurgency in Istanbul / Deniz Yonucu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yonucu, Deniz, 1979- author.

Series:

Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law enforcement--Political aspects--Turkey--Istanbul.

Law enforcement.

Counterinsurgency--Turkey.

Counterinsurgency.

Turkey--Politics and government--1980-.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Situating Turkish counterinsurgent policing within a global context of Cold War counterinsurgencies that inform current security practices and combining archival work and oral history with ethnographic research in Istanbul's dissident working-class neighborhoods, the book sheds light on counterinsurgency's provocative, affect generating, divisive techniques and urban dimensions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Population, Provocative Counterorganization, and the War on Politics

The Possibility of Politics : People's Committees, Sanctuary Spaces, and Dissensus

"Gazas of Istanbul" : Threatening Alliances and Militarized Spatial Control

Provocative Counterorganization : Violent Interpellation, Low-Intensity Conflict, Ethnosectarian Enclaves

Good Vigilantism, Bad Vigilantism : Crime, Community Justice, Mimetic Policing, and the Antiterror Laws

Inspirational Hauntings : Undercover Police and the Spirits of Solidarity and Resistance

Gezi Uprisings : The Long Summer of Solidarity, and Resistance and the Great Divide

Epilogue : Policing as the Generation of (Dis)Order.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Yonucu, Deniz Police, Provocation, Politics

ISBN:

9781501762154

150176215X

9781501762185

1501762184

OCLC:

1267402822