The Wall

The Making and Unmaking of the Turkish-Syrian Border
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-45653-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 247 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Through an anthropological analysis, this book uncovers life stories and testimonies that relate the processes of separation as a result of the constructed political borders of nation states newly founded on the inherited territories of the Ottoman Empire. As it recounts ruptured social, cultural, political, religious, and economic structures and autochthonous bonds, this work not only critically analyzes the making of the Turkish-Syrian border through an exploration of statist discourse, state practices and the state’s diverse apparatuses, but further analyzes the “unmaking” border practices of local subjects in the light of local Kurdish people’s counter perceptions, discourses, family histories, narratives, and daily practices—each of which can be interpreted as a practice of local defiance, resilience, and adaptation in everyday life.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aras, Ramazan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.-Chapter 2. Anthropology of Borders and Borderlands in Turkey.-Chapter 3. The Making.-Chapter 4. The Unmaking.-Chapter 5. The Final Phase: The Turkish Security Wall.-Chapter 6. Concluding Remarks.

Über Autor(innen)

Ramazan Aras is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Sociology at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul, Turkey.