The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds

An Analysis of Spatial Policies, Modernity and War
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15557-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 102, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

In seeking to understand village evacuation in the Kurdistan region of Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s, this book focuses on the spatial aspects of the armed conflict. It tries to explain how settlement and resettlement policies and practices in Turkey have been part of a larger project of political and cultural engineering, based on a revision of a classical understanding of modernity as reflected in the work of Durkheim, Mauss, and Tönnies. This interdisciplinary perspective has allowed contributions from sociology to the political sciences and from history to social geography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jongerden, Joost

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
List of Graphs
List of Boxes
List of Terms and Abbreviations
Notes on Turkish and Kurdish Spelling and Pronunciation
Note on Style
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Soldiers and Settlements
Settling the Southeast
The Integrated Settlement Network
Settlement Issue and Settlement Activities
Claiming the Land
Summary and Conclusions
Annex: Maps of the Pilot Projects
Bibliography
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joost Jongerden, Ph.D. (2006) in Social Sciences, Wageningen University, is Assistant Professor at a center for technology-studies associated to the Wageningen University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the Kurdish issue in Turkey and on society and technology issues.