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      The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey
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      Political Violence, Fear and Pain

      The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey

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      The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey book

      Political Violence, Fear and Pain
      ByRamazan Aras
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2013
      eBook Published 17 October 2013
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203584736
      Pages 240
      eBook ISBN 9780203584736
      Subjects Area Studies, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Aras, R. (2013). The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey: Political Violence, Fear and Pain (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203584736

      ABSTRACT

      The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain through an analysis of life stories, personal narratives and testimonies of Kurdish subjects in contemporary Turkey. It traces the physical and psychological impacts of the war between the state security forces and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) guerrillas in the last three decades, in Kurdish populated areas in the south-eastern part of Turkey.

      Focusing on the instrumentalization of violence, the ensuing and manufactured culture of fear, gendered experiences of state violence, pain, incarceration, and corporeal punishment, Ramazan Aras argues that these phenomena have shaped contemporary Kurdish history and memory. Analysing occurrences of various forms of protracted state violence and fear not only as personal and differential markers experienced by individuals, but also as communally-felt phenomena which have engendered collective suffering, this book asserts that these traumatic experiences have marked the social body and produced a prevailing narrative of Kurdishness.

      Providing an anthropological study of political violence, fear, and pain amongst the Kurdish community in Turkey, this book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Kurdish Studies, Middle East Studies and Anthropology.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |12 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|26 pages

      The modern nation-state and political violence

      chapter 2|40 pages

      A genealogical exploration of Kurdish suffering in Turkey

      chapter 3|32 pages

      The state and the politics of fear

      chapter 4|38 pages

      A nation in pain: gendered suffering and loss

      chapter 5|38 pages

      The embodiment of state violence: memories of incarceration and corporeal punishment

      chapter 6|22 pages

      The making of the Kurdish world(s)

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