The settlement issue in Turkey and the Kurds : : an analysis of spatial policies, modernity and war / / by Joost Jongerden.

• Superior document: Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, v. 102
• Author: Jongerden, Joost.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; v. 102.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 354 pages) :; illustrations, maps

In seeking to understand village evacuation in the Kurdistan region of Turkey in the 1980's and 1990's, this book focuses on the spatial aspects of the armed conflict. It tries to explain how settlement and resettlement policies and practices in Turkey have been part of a larger project of political and cultural engineering, based on a revision of a classical understanding of modernity as reflected in the work of Durkheim, Mauss, and Tönnies. This interdisciplinary perspective has allowed contributions from sociology to the political sciences and from history to social geography.

Table of Contents

Soldiers and settlements: Turkish counter-insurgency and the strategy of environment deprivation -- Settling the Southeast: The rise and fall of a rehabilitation doctrine -- The integrated settlement network: Towards a new spatial organization of the countryside -- Settlement issue and settlement activities: The colonization of peoples and territories -- Claiming the land: Empirical observation on the ground -- Summary and conclusions -- Annex: Maps of the pilot projects.