States of Dispossession : Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey / Zerrin Ozlem Biner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biner, Zerrin Özlem, Author.

Series:

Ethnography of political violence.

The Ethnography of Political Violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic conflict--Turkey.

Ethnic conflict.

Land tenure--Turkey.

Land tenure.

Political violence--Turkey.

Political violence.

Violence--Turkey.

Violence.

War and society--Turkey.

War and society.

Turkey--Social conditions--21st century.

Turkey.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Cementing the Past with the Future: The Materiality of Stone and Concrete

Chapter 2. Ruined Heritage

Chapter 3. Digging with the Jinn

Chapter 4. Living as if Indebted

Chapter 5. Beneath the Wall Surrounding the Mor Gabriel Monastery

Chapter 6. Loss, Compensation, and Debt

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

Acknowledgements

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780812296594

0812296591

OCLC:

1128732413