ABSTRACT
This volume gives a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the Kurdish issue in Turkey from a spatial perspective that takes into account geographical variations in identity formation, exclusion and political mobilisation.
Although analysis of Turkey’s Kurdish issue from a spatial perspective is not new, spatial analyses are still relatively scarce. More often than not, Kurdish studies consist of time-centred work. In this book, the attention is shifted from outcome-oriented analysis of transformation in time towards a spatial analysis. The authors in this book discuss the spatial production of home, identity, work, in short, of being in the world. The contributions are based on the tacit avowal that the Kurdish question, in addition to being a question of group rights, is also one of spatial relations. By asking a different set of questions, this book examines; which spatial strategies have been employed to deal with Kurds? Which spatial strategies are developed by Kurds to deal with state, and with the neo-liberal turn? How are these strategies absorbed and what counter-strategies are developed, both in cities populated by the Kurds in south-eastern Turkey and in other regions?
Emphasizing that identity or place, its particularity or uniqueness, arises from social practices and social relations, this book is essential reading for scholars and researchers working in Kurdish and Turkish Studies, Urban and Rural Studies and Politics more broadly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|129 pages
Making and remaking the southeast
chapter 2|33 pages
Space, state-making and contentious Kurdish politics in the East of Turkey
chapter 4|12 pages
What is hidden beneath the Mor Gabriel Monastery wall?
chapter 5|31 pages
An ethnographic account of compulsory public service by doctors in Hakkari
chapter 6|18 pages
Beyond Kurdistan?
part I|131 pages
Kurdish struggles in urban spaces
chapter 7|26 pages
Generational differences in political mobilization among Kurdish forced migrants
chapter 8|26 pages
Space, capitalism and Kurdish migrants in İzmir
chapter 9|27 pages
Rescaled localities and redefined class relations
chapter 10|22 pages
Politics of privacy
chapter 11|23 pages
Ethnicity, social tensions and production of space in forced migration neighbourhoods of Mersin
part III|42 pages
Spaces of seasonal migration