The Kurdish issue in Turkey a spatial perspective / [electronic resource] : edited by Zeynep Gambetti and Joost Jongerden. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015. - 1 online resource (xv, 338 p.) : ill. - Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 72 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Kurdish Issue in Turkey from a spatial perspective / Zeynep Gambetti and Joost Jongerden -- PART I: MAKING AND REMAKING THE SOUTHEAST -- Space, state-making and contentious Kurdish politics in the East of Turkey : the case of Eastern Meetings, 1967 / Azad Gundogan -- Diyarbakir's "Witness Sites" and discourses on the "Kurdish Question" in Turkey / Eray Cayli -- What is hidden beneath the Mor Gabriel Monastery wall? Consolidating borders between self and other, self and the state / Zerrin Ozlem Biner -- An ethnographic account of compulsory public service by doctors in Hakkari : The limits of the AKP assimilation strategy and the production of space / Ilker Corut -- Beyond Kurdistan? The Mesopotamia Social Forum and the appropriation and re-imagination of Mesopotamia by the Kurdish movement / Marlies Casier -- PART II: KURDISH STRUGGLES IN URBAN SPACES -- Generational differences in political mobilization among Kurdish forced migrants : The case of Istanbul's Kanarya Mahallesi / Gulay Kilicaslan -- Space, capitalism and Kurdish migrants in Izmir : an analysis of Kadifekale's Transformation / Neslihan Demirtas-Milz and Cenk Saracoglu -- Rescaled localities and redefined class relations : neoliberal experience in south-east Turkey / Ayse Seda Yuksel -- Politics of privacy : forced migration and the spatial struggle of the Kurdish youth in Adana / Haydar Darici -- Ethnicity, social tensions and production of space in forced migration neighbourhoods of Mersin / Ali Ekber Dogan and Bediz Yilmaz -- PART III: SPACES OF SEASONAL MIGRATION -- Embodiment of space and labor : Kurdish migrant workers in Turkish agriculture / Deniz Duruiz -- The transformation of the private home of Kurdish seasonal workers / Iclal Ayse Kucukkirca.

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City and town life--Turkey.
Group identity--Turkey.
Human geography--Turkey.
Kurds--Civil rights--Turkey.
Kurds--Politics and government.--Turkey
Kurds--Social conditions.--Turkey
Political participation--Turkey.
Spatial behavior--Turkey.


Turkey--Ethnic relations.
Turkey--Social conditions.