Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence and Resistance

Building on critical and contemporary theory, these essays address the multiple ways in which the Turkish regime controls its citizens through physical destruction, structural violence and exposure. The 12 case studies include counterinsurgency warfare, enforced disappearances, cemeteries, monuments, prisons, courts and the army.

This book makes a strong case that Turkey’s regime and its vicissitudes are dependent on a necropolitical undercurrent. Building on the insights of critical and contemporary theory, the essays address the multiple ways in which lives are brought into the fold of power. Once there, they are subjected to mechanisms of death and destruction, and to modalities of infrastructural violence, strategic neglect and exposure. This produces new forms of impoverishment, inequality and disposability. Bringing together historical, discursive, and ethnographic approaches from multiple disciplines, this collection offers a sobering and original analysis of contemporary Turkey.

• | Author: Banu Bargu
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 31, 2021
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781474450270
• | ISBN-10: 147445027X