| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 319 pages) |
| Series |
The ethnography of political violence |
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Ethnography of political violence.
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| Contents |
Introduction : reverberations of violence across time and space / Yael Navaro, Zerrin Özlem Biner, Alice von Bieberstein, and Seda Altuğ -- 1. Chronicling deaths foretold : the testimony of the corpse and the problem of political violence in South Africa / Rosalind C. Morris -- 2. Speculating on death : treasure hunting in present-day Moush / Alice von Bieberstein -- 3. Culture of dispossession in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic : land, ethno-religious difference, and power / Seda Altuğ -- 4. Violence and spirituality : Khidr cosmography at the Turkish/Syrian territorial interface / Yael Navaro -- 5. Icons of uncaring : borderland cartographies of icon making / Connie Gagliardi and Valentina Napolitano -- 6. Digging : the spiritual-material imagination of (dis)possession in Mardin, Southeast Turkey / Zerrin Özlem Biner -- 7. Maskun : two landscapes of war / Munira Khayyat -- 8. Infrastructural violence in Jerusalem : abjection, incorporation, and resistance in the "Cyborg City" / Hanna Baumann -- 9. Tenses of violence : ruination and accumulation along the Çoruh Valley, Turkey / Erdem Evren -- 10. The wounded landscape : mass trauma, memory, and human-object relations / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- 11. Architectural witnessing at the former Madımak Hotel in Sivas, Turkey / Eray Çaylı -- Afterword : reverberations of political violence / Penelope Harvey |
| Summary |
"The turn to the nonhuman in the humanities and social sciences has arguably been mobilized through a washing away of political violence, its histories, and its traces. Reverberations aims to redress this problem by methodologically and conceptually placing political violence and nonhuman entities side by side. The volume generates a new framework for the study of political violence and its protracted aftermath by attending, through innovative ethnographic and historical studies, to its distribution, extension, and endurance across time, space, materialities, and otherworldly dimensions, as well as its embodiment in subjectivities, discourses, and imaginations. Collectively, in the study of political violence, the contributions focus on human agencies and experiences in engagement with nonhuman entities such as objects, land, fields, houses, buildings, treasures, trees, spirits, saints, and prophets. In a variety of contexts, the scholars herein ask the crucial question: What can be learned about political violence by analyzing it in the terrain of relationality between human beings and nonhuman entities? How are things such as objects, spaces, natural phenomena, or spiritual beings entwined in histories of political violence? And vice versa--how are histories of political violence implicated in nonhuman things?"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Yael Navaro is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. Zerrin Ozlem Biner is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Alice von Bieberstein is Assistant Professor at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Seda Altuğ is Assistant Professor in History at Boğazici University, Istanbul, Turkey |
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Print version record |
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Political violence.
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Political violence -- Environmental aspects
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Political violence -- Case studies
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terrorism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Political violence
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Navaro-Yashin, Yael, 1969- editor.
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Biner, Zerrin Özlem, editor.
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Bieberstein, Alice von, 1981- editor.
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Altuğ, Seda, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780812298123 |
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0812298128 |
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