ABSTRACT
Livestock production in Turkey has drastically changed over the last couple of decades from village type, free range production to industrial mass production. Animals now live and are being killed in a different bio-spatial regime. This chapter aims to highlight the intersecting trajectories of deepening capitalization and military violence in Southeastern Turkey. It shows how dispossession takes place in a particular military setting and how bio-political regimes align with not-free-market mechanisms. The chapter looks at how animals are subjected to regulative, normative policies of states and corporations. It deals with a discussion of the new ecosystem that emerge around a particular legal framework and a new mode of capitalization, while putting a number of normative claims under scrutiny. The chapter examines the spatial arrangements in the above-mentioned conflict zone and the subsequent demographic transformation that has happened. Since the 1990s, concerns of security and efficiency have guided large-scale changes in the agricultural sector.
