Ebook: Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence and Resistance

Analyses Turkey’s precarious democracy from the perspective of its entwinement with violence

• Brings together 11 case studies that take up different forms of violence which collectively shed light on the contradictions and limitations of Turkey’s democracy
• Zooms in on themes such as martyrdom, counterinsurgency warfare, enforced disappearances and conscientious objection; sites such as emergency zones, cemeteries, monuments and borderlands; and institutions such as prisons, courts and the army
• Draws on historical, discursive, and ethnographic approaches
• Gathers contributors from disciplines including political theory, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, international relations, gender studies and sexuality studies
• Speaks to the broader research programme on violence in the critical humanities and social sciences

This book makes a strong case that Turkey’s regime and its vicissitudes are dependent on a necropolitical undercurrent. Building on the insights of critical and contemporary theory, the essays address the multiple ways in which lives are brought into the fold of power. Once there, they are subjected to mechanisms of death and destruction, and to modalities of infrastructural violence, strategic neglect and exposure. This produces new forms of impoverishment, inequality and disposability.

Contributors

Onur Bakıner, Seattle University, WA, USA.

Osman Balkan, Swarthmore College, PA, USA.

Banu Bargu, University of California in Santa Cruz, USA.

Fırat Bozçalı, University of Toronto, Canada.

Başak Can, Koç University, Turkey.

Haydar Darıcı, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Serra Hakyemez, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.

Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, at Doğuş University, Turkey.

Ege Selin Islekel, Loyola Marymount University, LA, USA.

Pınar Kemerli, New York University, USA.

Gözde Aytemur Nüfusçu, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France, and Galatasaray University, Turkey.

Cem Özatalay, The New School for Social Research, NY, USA and Galatasaray University, Turkey.

Elif Savaş, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

Lerna K. Yanık, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Gülistan Zeren, Ecole Normal Supérieure de Lyon, France.