The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey: Political Violence, Fear and Pain

ISBN-13: 9780415824187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 226 str.

Ramazan Aras

Opis

This book examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain in their atrocious immediacy in the Kurdish populated-areas in contemporary Turkey. It traces the physical and psychological impacts of the war between the state and the PKK (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan/Kurdistan Workers Party) guerillas in the last three decades, predominantly in the 1990s in the Kurdish region in Turkey.

Spis treści

Introduction: An Ethnography of Political Violence Among Kurds 1 The Modern Nation-State and Political Violence 2 A Genealogical Exploration of Kurdish Suffering in Turkey 3 The State and the Politics of Fear 4 A Nation in Pain: Gendered Suffering and Loss 5 The Embodiment of State Violence: Memories of  Incarceration and Corporeal Punishment Conclusion: the Making of Kurdish World(s)