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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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Author:   Banu Bargu (Associate Professor of History of Consciousness and Political Theory in the Department of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781474450270

ISBN 10:   147445027
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   31 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Bakıner 3. ‘They Wrote History with Their Body’: Necrogeopolitics, Necropolitical Spaces and the Everyday Spatial Politics of Death in Turkey Lerna K. Yanık and Fulya Hisarlıoğlu 4. Neither Civilian, Nor Combatant: Weaponised Spaces and Spatialised Bodies in CizreHaydar Darıcı and Serra Hakyemez Part II: Negotiating Life: Resistance and Democracy 5. The Necropolitics of Documents and the Slow Death of Prisoners in Turkey Başak Can 6. Proper Subjects of Gendered Necropolitics: A Case of Constructed Virginities in TurkeyElif Savaş 7. Necropolitics, Martyrdom, and Muslim Conscientious ObjectionPınar Kemerli 8. The Use of Blood Money in the Establishment of Non-Justice: Necrodomination and ResistanceCem Özatalay, Gözde Aytemur Nüfusçu, and Gülistan Zeren 9. Money for Life: Border Killings, Compensation Claims and Life-Money Conversions in Turkey’s Kurdish BorderlandsFırat Bozçalı 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

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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).

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