Sovereignty suspended : building the so-called state / Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, Rebecca, author.

Hatay, Mete, author.

Series:

Ethnography of political violence.

The ethnography of political violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation-building--Cyprus, Northern.

Nation-building.

Self-determination, National--Cyprus, Northern.

Self-determination, National.

Turks--Cyprus--Social conditions.

Turks.

Cyprus, Northern--Politics and government.

Cyprus, Northern.

Cyprus, Northern--International status.

Cyprus, Northern--Foreign relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.) : 15 illus.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

All Cypriots have lived for more than forty years with the political, economic, and psychological consequences of an unresolved conflict and a divided island. Moreover, as citizens of an unrecognized state, Turkish Cypriots' ability to do well or to continue doing well is always improvisatory, as they constantly adapt to whatever limitations are being imposed on their ability to trade, study, and travel. Despite the conflict, citizens of the recognized RoC are able to plan their lives and the lives of their children with the assumption that they will continue to live in a recognized, EU-member state. Citizens of the so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, live their daily lives with what they invariably call belirsizlik, uncertainty. That uncertainty arises from not knowing one's place in the world, from not being "seen" or recognized, and from the knowledge that the shape, form, and substance of their so-called state could be significantly altered with a pen stroke -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

NOTE ON TOPONYMS AND TURKISH PRONUNCIATION

Introduction. The Aporetic State

Introduction

Chapter 1. Building a "Border"

Chapter 2. Mastering the Landscape

Chapter 3. Planting People

Chapter 4. The So- Called State

Chapter 5. The Political Economy of Spoils

Chapter 6. Federalism as Fetish

Chapter 7. Victim and Citizen

Chapter 8. An Ambiguous Domination

Chapter 9. The Politics of Dis/simulation

Conclusion. The Absurdity of the Aporia

Appendix: Turkish Cypriot Institutions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8122-9713-X

OCLC:

1156212436