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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?
The military conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
and the Turkish Armed Forces has endured over the course of the
past three decades. Since 1984, the conflict has claimed the lives
of more than 45,000 civilians, militants, and soldiers, as well as
causing thousands of casualties and disappearances. It has led to
the displacement of millions of people and caused the forced
evacuation of nearly 4,000 villages and towns. Suspended
periodically by various cease-fires, the conflict has been a
significant force in shaping many of the ethnic, social, and
political enclaves of contemporary Turkey, where contradictory
forms of governance have been installed across the Kurdish region.
In States of Dispossession, Zerrin OEzlem Biner traces the violence
of the protracted conflict in the Kurdish region through the lens
of dispossession. By definition, dispossession implies the act of
depriving someone of land, property, and other belongings as well
as the result of such deprivation. Within the fields of Ottoman and
contemporary Turkish studies, social scientists to date have
examined the dispossession of rights and property as a technique
for governing territory and those citizens living at its margins.
States of Dispossession instead highlights everyday experiences in
an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of
dispossession. Biner examines the practices and discourses that
emerge from local memories of unspoken, irresolvable histories and
the ways people of differing religious and ethnic backgrounds live
with the remains of violence that is still unfolding. She explores
the implicit knowledge held by ordinary people about the landscape
and the built environment and the continuous struggle to reclaim
rights over dispossessed bodies and places.
This collection of rich, empirically grounded case studies
investigates the conditions and consequences of 'juridification' -
the use of law by ordinary individuals as a form of protest against
'the state'. Starting from the actual practices of claimants, these
case studies address the translation and interpretation of legal
norms into local concepts, actions and practices in a way that
highlights the social and cultural dynamism and multivocality of
communities in their interaction with the law and legal norms. The
contributors to this volume challenge the image of homogeneous and
primordially norm-bound cultures that has been (unintentionally)
perpetuated by some of the more prevalent treatments of law and
culture. This volume highlights the heterogeneous geography of law
and the ways boundaries between different legal bodies are
transcended in struggles for rights. Contributions include case
studies from South Africa, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Turkey, India,
Papua New Guinea, Suriname, the Marshall Islands and Russia.
This collection of rich, empirically grounded case studies
investigates the conditions and consequences of 'juridification' -
the use of law by ordinary individuals as a form of protest against
'the state'. Starting from the actual practices of claimants, these
case studies address the translation and interpretation of legal
norms into local concepts, actions and practices in a way that
highlights the social and cultural dynamism and multivocality of
communities in their interaction with the law and legal norms. The
contributors to this volume challenge the image of homogeneous and
primordially norm-bound cultures that has been (unintentionally)
perpetuated by some of the more prevalent treatments of law and
culture. This volume highlights the heterogeneous geography of law
and the ways boundaries between different legal bodies are
transcended in struggles for rights. Contributions include case
studies from South Africa, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Turkey, India,
Papua New Guinea, Suriname, the Marshall Islands and Russia.
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