ISBN:
9780812253498
,
0812253493
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 319 Seiten
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
The ethnography of political violence
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Reverberations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Reverberations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Political violence
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Political violence Environmental aspects
;
Political violence Case studies
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Political violence
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Case studies
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Gewalt
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Gewalttätigkeit
;
Aggression
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Fallstudie
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Aggressivität
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Test
Abstract:
The turn to the nonhuman in the humanities and social sciences has arguably been mobilized through a washing away of political violence, its histories, and its traces. Reverberations aims to redress this problem by methodologically and conceptually placing political violence and nonhuman entities side by side. The volume generates a new framework for the study of political violence and its protracted aftermath by attending, through innovative ethnographic and historical studies, to its distribution, extension, and endurance across time, space, materialities, and otherworldly dimensions, as well as its embodiment in subjectivities, discourses, and imaginations. Collectively, in the study of political violence, the contributions focus on human agencies and experiences in engagement with nonhuman entities such as objects, land, fields, houses, buildings, treasures, trees, spirits, saints, and prophets. In a variety of contexts, the scholars herein ask the crucial question: What can be learned about political violence by analyzing it in the terrain of relationality between human beings and nonhuman entities? How are things such as objects, spaces, natural phenomena, or spiritual beings entwined in histories of political violence? And vice versa—how are histories of political violence implicated in nonhuman things? Yael Navaro is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. Zerrin Özlem Biner is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Alice von Bieberstein is Assistant Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
Chapter 1. Chronicling deaths foretold : the testimony of the corpse and the problem of political violence in South Africa / Rosalind C. Morris -- Chapter 2. Speculating on death : treasure hunting in present-day Moush / Alice von Bieberstein -- Chapter 3. Culture of dispossession in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic : land, ethno-religious difference, and power / Seda Altuğ -- Chapter 4. Violence and spirituality : Khidr cosmography at the Turkish/Syrian territorial interface / Yael Navaro -- Chapter 5. Icons of uncaring : borderland cartographies of icon making / Connie Gagliardi and Valentina Napolitano -- Chapter 6. Digging : the spiritual-material imagination of (dis)possession in Mardin, Southeast Turkey / Zerrin Özlem Biner -- Chapter 7. Maskun : two landscapes of war / Munira Khayyat -- Chapter 8. Infrastructural violence in Jerusalem : abjection, incorporation, and resistance in the "Cyborg City" / Hanna Baumann -- Chapter 9. Tenses of violence : ruination and accumulation along the Çoruh Valley, Turkey / Erdem Evren -- Chapter 10. The wounded landscape : mass trauma, memory, and human-object relations / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- Chapter 11. Architectural witnessing at the former Madımak Hotel in Sivas, Turkey / Eray Çaylı -- Afterword . reverberations of political violence / Penelope Harvey.
Abstract:
Cover -- Reverberations -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Reverberations of Violence Across Time and Space -- PART I. SPACES OF DEATH -- Chapter 1. Chronicling Deaths Foretold: The Testimony of the Corpse and the Problem of Political Violence in South Africa -- Chapter 2. Speculating on Death: Treasure Hunting in Present-Day Moush -- Chapter 3. Culture of Dispossession in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic: Land, Ethnoreligious Difference, and Violence -- PART II. VIOLENCE AND THE SUPER NATURAL -- Chapter 4. Violence and Spirituality: Khidr Cosmography at the Turkish/Syrian Territorial Interface -- Chapter 5. Icons of Uncaring: Borderland Cartographies of Icon Making -- Chapter 6. Digging: The Spiritual-Material Imagination of (Dis)possession in Mardin, Southeast Turkey -- Chapter 7. Maskun: Two Landscapes of War -- PART III. VIOLENCE AGAINST NATURE AND INFRASTRUCTURAL VIOLENCE -- Chapter 8. Infrastructural Violence in Jerusalem: Abjection, Incorporation, and Resistance in the "Cyborg City" -- Chapter 9. Tenses of Violence: Ruination and Accumulation Along the Çoruh Valley, Turkey -- Chapter 10. The Wounded Landscape: Mass Trauma, Memory, and Human-Object Relations -- Chapter 11. Architectural Witnessing at the Former Madimak Hotel in Sivas, Turkey -- Afterword. Reverberations of Political Violence -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
"Reverberations aims to generate new concepts and methodologies for the study of violence and its protracted aftermath. The innovative ethnographic studies presented here attend to the distribution, extension, and endurance of violence across time, space, materialities, and otherworldly dimensions, as well as its embodiment in subjectivities, discourses, politics, and imaginations"--
Abstract:
Reverberations aims to generate new concepts and methodologies for the study of political violence and its aftermath. Essays attend to the distribution, extension, and endurance of violence across time, space, materialities, and otherworldly dimensions, as well as its embodiment in subjectivities, discourses, and political imaginations
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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