Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory
Democracy, Violence and Resistance
Published on 31. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-4744-5027-0 (ISBN)
Description
This 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. Bringing together historical, discursive, and ethnographic approaches from multiple disciplines, this collection offers a sobering and original analysis of contemporary Turkey.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
462 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-5027-0 (9781474450270)
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Banu Bargu is Associate Professor of History of Consciousness and Political Theory in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her main area of specialisation is political theory, with a thematic focus on theories of sovereignty, biopolitics, and resistance. She is the author of the award-winning book Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2014).
Content
1. Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory: Notes Towards an InvestigationBanu Bargu
Part I: Politicising Death: Sovereign Cartographies of Violence
2. 'These are Ordinary Things': Regulation of Death under the AKP RegimeOnur Bakiner
3. 'They Wrote History with Their Body': Necrogeopolitics, Necropolitical Spaces and the Everyday Spatial Politics of Death in Turkey
Lerna K. Yanik and Fulya Hisarlioglu
4. Neither Civilian, Nor Combatant: Weaponised Spaces and Spatialised Bodies in CizreHaydar Darici and Serra Hakyemez
Part II: Negotiating Life: Resistance and Democracy
5. The Necropolitics of Documents and the Slow Death of Prisoners in Turkey Basak Can
6. Proper Subjects of Gendered Necropolitics: A Case of Constructed Virginities in TurkeyElif Savas
7. Necropolitics, Martyrdom, and Muslim Conscientious ObjectionPinar Kemerli
8. The Use of Blood Money in the Establishment of Non-Justice: Necrodomination and ResistanceCem OEzatalay, Goezde Aytemur Nuefuscu, and Guelistan Zeren
9. Money for Life: Border Killings, Compensation Claims and Life-Money Conversions in Turkey's Kurdish BorderlandsFirat Bozcali
Part III: Political Afterlives: Governing The Living And The Dead
10. Another NecropoliticsBanu Bargu
11. The Cemetery of TraitorsOsman Balkan
12. Nightmare-Knowledges: Epistemologies of DisappearanceEge Selin Islekel
Index
Part I: Politicising Death: Sovereign Cartographies of Violence
2. 'These are Ordinary Things': Regulation of Death under the AKP RegimeOnur Bakiner
3. 'They Wrote History with Their Body': Necrogeopolitics, Necropolitical Spaces and the Everyday Spatial Politics of Death in Turkey
Lerna K. Yanik and Fulya Hisarlioglu
4. Neither Civilian, Nor Combatant: Weaponised Spaces and Spatialised Bodies in CizreHaydar Darici and Serra Hakyemez
Part II: Negotiating Life: Resistance and Democracy
5. The Necropolitics of Documents and the Slow Death of Prisoners in Turkey Basak Can
6. Proper Subjects of Gendered Necropolitics: A Case of Constructed Virginities in TurkeyElif Savas
7. Necropolitics, Martyrdom, and Muslim Conscientious ObjectionPinar Kemerli
8. The Use of Blood Money in the Establishment of Non-Justice: Necrodomination and ResistanceCem OEzatalay, Goezde Aytemur Nuefuscu, and Guelistan Zeren
9. Money for Life: Border Killings, Compensation Claims and Life-Money Conversions in Turkey's Kurdish BorderlandsFirat Bozcali
Part III: Political Afterlives: Governing The Living And The Dead
10. Another NecropoliticsBanu Bargu
11. The Cemetery of TraitorsOsman Balkan
12. Nightmare-Knowledges: Epistemologies of DisappearanceEge Selin Islekel
Index