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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Biner’s book is an impressive account of the ways in which people live a life with the dead and the past in the present, and how death itself is never far away; it’s a book how people navigate through the pain, injury and loss of others as well as that of themselves. It’s an account of the ways in which people live a precarious life. Ultimately, it’s a book about hope for a better, different life. But it’s also a book that shows the suffocating effects of that hope being ravaged by new rounds of violence as the possibility of a livable life sways back and forth between sheer phantasy and toxic asset" * Politics, Religion & Ideology *
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States of Dispossession is a highly original and rich ethnographic and theoretical work on violence in the Kurdish region of Turkey. It fills a pressing need." * Lale Yalçin-Heckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology *
"Zerrin Özlem Biner's book offers sharp analysis of how past violence, the built environment, and law shape the circumstances in which different people in the city of Mardin in southeast Turkey confront the present and envision futures." * Stef Jansen, Manchester University *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Cementing the Past with the Future: The Materiality of Stone and Concrete
Chapter 2. Ruined Heritage
Chapter 3. Digging with the Cin
Chapter 4. Living as if Indebted
Chapter 5. Beneath the Wall Surrounding the Mor Gabriel Monastery
Chapter 6. Loss, Compensation, and Debt
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
