Turkish National Identity and Its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim

by Ozlem Goner

This book examines the ways in which states and nations are constructed and legitimated through defining and managing outsiders. Focusing on Turkey and the municipality of Dersim - a region that has historically combined different outsider identities, including Armenian, Kurdish, and Alevi identities - the author explores the remembering, transformation and mobilisation of everyday relations of power and how relationships with the state shape both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138207152
• ISBN13: 9781138207158
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"