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Author Biner, Zerrin Özlem

Title States of dispossession : violence and precarious coexistence in southeast Turkey / Zerrin Özlem Biner
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (261 pages)
Series Ethnography of political violence
Ethnography of political violence.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Cementing the Past with the Future: The Materiality of Stone and Concrete -- Chapter 2. Ruined Heritage -- Chapter 3. Digging with the Jinn -- Chapter 4. Living as if Indebted -- Chapter 5. Beneath the Wall Surrounding the Mor Gabriel Monastery -- Chapter 6. Loss, Compensation, and Debt -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgements
Summary "The book highlights everyday experiences in an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of dispossession and the ways people of differing religious and ethnic backgrounds remember, experience, and live with the remains of a violence that is still unfolding"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis African Studies
Anthropology
Asian Studies
Folklore
Human Rights
Law
Linguistics
Middle Eastern Studies
Political Science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Political violence -- Turkey
Violence -- Turkey
Ethnic conflict -- Turkey
Land tenure -- Turkey.
War and society -- Turkey
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Ethnic conflict
Land tenure
Political violence
Social conditions
Violence
War and society
SUBJECT Turkey -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject Turkey
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812296594
0812296591