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Author Navaro-Yashin, Yael, 1969-

Title The make-believe space : affective geography in a postwar polity / Yael Navaro-Yashin
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 270 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents pt. 1. Spatial transformation The materiality of sovereignty -- Repopulating a territory -- The affects of spatial confinement -- pt. 2. Administration Administration and affect -- The affective life of documents -- pt. 3. Objects and dwellings -- Abjected spaces, debris of war -- Affective spaces, melancholic objects -- Home, law and the uncanny -- Collectibles of war and the tangibility of affect
Summary This is an anthropological look at the Turkish territory of Northern Cyprus, a self-defined state, which is actually imaginary (because it is only recognized by Turkey). Navaro-Yashin surveys the affective landscape, examining the sense of haunted property and objects lost and gained in the partition, along with people s relation to the fictive remapping of places and history by this new state
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject War and society -- Cyprus
War -- Psychological aspects.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Public opinion
War and society
War -- Psychological aspects
Cypernfrågan.
Krig -- psykologiska aspekter.
Krig och samhälle.
SUBJECT Cyprus -- History -- Cyprus Crisis, 1974- -- Public opinion
Subject Cyprus
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822395133
0822395134
1280119799
9781280119798
9786613523785
661352378X