Muna Guvenc

The City Is Ours

Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The City Is Ours provides a critical account of how the pro-Kurdish party's urban politics in the early 2000s fostered the rise of Kurdish nationhood and political mobilization in Diyarbak¿r, Turkey"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781501776373
• ISBN-10: 1501776371
• Artikelnr.: 70291626

Autorenporträt

Muna Güvenç is an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University. Prior to her academic career, she worked as an architect in Istanbul, Turkey.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Urban Manuver
1. Whose City?
2. Building the Frontier: "We Will Not Surrender"
3. Seeing Like a Movement, Acting Like a State: "We Will Administer
Ourselves"
4. Branding the City: "Diyarbak¿r Is Our Capital"
5. Sculpting Violence, Activating the Street: "Freedom or Freedom"
6. Dismantling the Kurdish Landscape: "Hey, You People-Dreams Canceled"
Conclusion: Wiggle Room