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Author Yonucu, Deniz, 1979- author.

Title Police, provocation, politics : counterinsurgency in Istanbul / Deniz Yonucu
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Police/worlds : studies in security, crime, and governance
Police/worlds.
Contents Introduction : Population, Provocative Counterorganization, and the War on Politics -- The Possibility of Politics : People's Committees, Sanctuary Spaces, and Dissensus -- "Gazas of Istanbul" : Threatening Alliances and Militarized Spatial Control -- Provocative Counterorganization : Violent Interpellation, Low-Intensity Conflict, Ethnosectarian Enclaves -- Good Vigilantism, Bad Vigilantism : Crime, Community Justice, Mimetic Policing, and the Antiterror Laws -- Inspirational Hauntings : Undercover Police and the Spirits of Solidarity and Resistance -- Gezi Uprisings : The Long Summer of Solidarity, and Resistance and the Great Divide -- Epilogue : Policing as the Generation of (Dis)Order
Summary "Situating Turkish counterinsurgent policing within a global context of Cold War counterinsurgencies that inform current security practices and combining archival work and oral history with ethnographic research in Istanbul's dissident working-class neighborhoods, the book sheds light on counterinsurgency's provocative, affect generating, divisive techniques and urban dimensions"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis turkish counterinsurgency, revolutionary left in turkey, alevi neighborhoods, police violence in turkey, gezi uprisings, gazi massacre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2022)
Subject Law enforcement -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- Istanbul
Counterinsurgency -- Turkey -- Istanbul
Internal security -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- Istanbul
Political violence -- Turkey -- Istanbul
Government, Resistance to -- Turkey -- Istanbul
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Counterinsurgency
Government, Resistance to
Law enforcement -- Political aspects
Political violence
Politics and government
SUBJECT Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89005202
Subject Turkey
Turkey -- Istanbul
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021041155
ISBN 9781501762185
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9781501762178
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