Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory : : Democracy, Violence and Resistance / / Banu Bargu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Bargu, Banu,
• MitwirkendeR: Bakıner, Onur,; Balkan, Osman,; Bargu, Banu,; Bozçalı, Fırat,; Can, Başak,; Darıcı, Haydar,; Hakyemez, Serra,; Hisarlıoğlu, Fulya,; Islekel, Ege Selin,; Kemerli, Pınar,; Nüfusçu, Gözde Aytemur,; Savaş, Elif,; Yanık, Lerna K.,; Zeren, Gülistan,; Özatalay, Cem Ö,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

Analyses Turkey’s precarious democracy from the perspective of its entwinement with violenceBrings together 11 case studies that take up different forms of violence which collectively shed light on the contradictions and limitations of Turkey’s democracyZooms in on themes such as martyrdom, counterinsurgency warfare, enforced disappearances and conscientious objection; sites such as emergency zones, cemeteries, monuments and borderlands; and institutions such as prisons, courts and the armyDraws on historical, discursive, and ethnographic approachesGathers contributors from disciplines including political theory, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, international relations, gender studies and sexuality studiesSpeaks to the broader research programme on violence in the critical humanities and social sciencesThis book makes a strong case that Turkey’s regime and its vicissitudes are dependent on a necropolitical undercurrent. Building on the insights of critical and contemporary theory, the essays address the multiple ways in which lives are brought into the fold of power. Once there, they are subjected to mechanisms of death and destruction, and to modalities of infrastructural violence, strategic neglect and exposure. This produces new forms of impoverishment, inequality and disposability. ContributorsOnur Bakıner, Seattle University, WA, USA. Osman Balkan, Swarthmore College, PA, USA. Banu Bargu, University of California in Santa Cruz, USA. Fırat Bozçalı, University of Toronto, Canada. Başak Can, Koç University, Turkey. Haydar Darıcı, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Serra Hakyemez, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, at Doğuş University, Turkey. Ege Selin Islekel, Loyola Marymount University, LA, USA. Pınar Kemerli, New York University, USA. Gözde Aytemur Nüfusçu, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France, and Galatasaray University, Turkey. Cem Özatalay, The New School for Social Research, NY, USA and Galatasaray University, Turkey. Elif Savaş, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Lerna K. Yanık, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. Gülistan Zeren, Ecole Normal Supérieure de Lyon, France.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- ONE / Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Notes towards an Investigation -- PART ONE / Politicising Death: Sovereign Cartographies of Violence -- TWO / ‘ These are ordinary things’: Regulation of Death under the AKP Regime -- THREE / ‘ They wrote history with their bodies ’: Necrogeopolitics, Necropolitical Spaces and the Everyday Spatial Politics of Death in Turkey -- FOUR / Neither Civilian nor Combatant: Weaponised Spaces and Spatialised Bodies in Cizre -- PART TWO / Negotiating Life: Resistance and Democracy -- FIVE / The Necropolitics of Documents and the Slow Death of Prisoners in Turkey -- SIX / Proper Subjects of Gendered Necropolitics: A Case of Constructed Virginities in Turkey -- SEVEN / Necropolitics, Martyrdom and Muslim Conscientious Objection -- EIGHT / The Use of Blood Money in the Establishment of Non-Justice: Necrodomination and Resistance -- NINE / Money for Life: Border Killings, Compensation Claims and Life-Money Conversions in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands -- PART THREE / Political Afterlives: Governing the Living and the Dead -- TEN / Another Necropolitics -- ELEVEN / The Cemetery of Traitors -- TWELVE / Nightmare Knowledges: Epistemologies of Disappearance -- Index