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- Condition
- Release Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 9780822352044
- Book Title
- Make-Believe Space : Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Social Science, History
- Topic
- Europe / Eastern, Sociology / General, Military / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / General
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 295 Pages
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822352044
ISBN-13
9780822352044
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109617677
Product Key Features
Book Title
Make-Believe Space : Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity
Number of Pages
295 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Europe / Eastern, Sociology / General, Military / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
7.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2011-036575
Reviews
The Make-Believe Space will appeal to readers in search of an analysis of statecraft that troubles the grounding of its legitimacy and authority in the law. As an ethnographic encounter with critical theory, the book also offers rich material to scholars studying the politics of affect and the socio-materialities of natural and built environments., "An unforgettable ethnography of a nation-state whose special status sharpens our eyes to the make-believe quality of every state. Yael Navaro-Yashin's evocative writing brings to life the scarred landscapes of Northern Cyprus and the affective worlds of Turkish-Cypriots who inhabit them-uncomfortable with 'looted' and abandoned objects, melancholic about the ruins of war and the ghostly Greek presence, and cynical about the banal apparatus of the state, whether its documents, laws, or occupations. Intimate conversations with philosophers and theorists weave in and out of profound ruminations on the details of people's interactions with their pregnant material worlds in this unique study that reveals anthropology's incisive beauty." Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University"Can the experience of citizenship in an illegitimate state reveal something about state-making more generally? In her insightful account of Northern Cyprus as 'make believe' space, Yael Navaro-Yashin traces the diverse practices-imaginative, material, and affective-that craft this de facto polity, both as fantasy, and as tangible truth. In the process, she offers profound insight into what it is that makes nation-states believable everywhere." Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago, "Can the experience of citizenship in an illegitimate state reveal something about state-making more generally? In her insightful account of Northern Cyprus as 'make believe' space, Yael Navaro-Yashin traces the diverse practices-imaginative, material, and affective-that craft this de facto polity, both as fantasy, and as tangible truth. In the process, she offers profound insight into what it is that makes nation-states believable everywhere."- Jean Comaroff , University of Chicago, "An unforgettable ethnography of a nation-state whose special status sharpens our eyes to the make-believe quality of every state. Yael Navaro-Yashin's evocative writing brings to life the scarred landscapes of Northern Cyprus and the affective worlds of Turkish-Cypriots who inhabit them-uncomfortable with 'looted' and abandoned objects, melancholic about the ruins of war and the ghostly Greek presence, and cynical about the banal apparatus of the state, whether its documents, laws, or occupations. Intimate conversations with philosophers and theorists weave in and out of profound ruminations on the details of people's interactions with their pregnant material worlds in this unique study that reveals anthropology's incisive beauty."- Lila Abu-Lughod , Columbia University, "This book is a must-read for scholars interested in the Mediterranean region as well as those with a more general interest in the intermingling of politics,materiality and affect." - Mikkel Bille, Ethnos, This book is a must-read for scholars interested in the Mediterranean region as well as those with a more general interest in the intermingling of politics,materiality and affect., Navaro-Yashin's book is a serious and intriguing exploration... Navaro-Yashin's work strongly engages this conflict [in Cypriot identity] and, in so doing, enlivens and broadens the social science discourse on Cyprus., "Can the experience of citizenship in an illegitimate state reveal something about state making more generally? In her insightful account of Northern Cyprus as 'make-believe' space, Yael Navaro-Yashin traces the diverse practices-imaginative, material, and affective-that craft this de facto polity, both as fantasy and as tangible truth. In the process, she offers profound insight into what it is that makes nation-states believable everywhere."- Jean Comaroff , University of Chicago, "Overall, this is an insightful and novel book which skillfully unpacks the various aspects of citizenship and belonging in a contested territory. . . . it sheds much-needed light on the complexities and intellectual magnetism of divided societies, Cyprus in particular, and their use as laboratories for innovative social science research." - Neophytos Loizides, Journal of Historical Geography, The Make-Believe Space is a very rich account of a violently partitioned spectral space, a stunted temporality, a haunted and cynical people, and a state with no stability, legitimacy, or recognition. It is well written and full of interesting stories. It is innovative in its focus on materiality and affect. I would highly recommend it to those interested in affect theory, material objects, and state formation in post-war contexts., "An unforgettable ethnography of a nation-state whose special status sharpens our eyes to the make-believe quality of every state. Yael Navaro-Yashin's evocative writing brings to life the scarred landscapes of Northern Cyprus and the affective worlds of Turkish-Cypriots who inhabit them--uncomfortable with 'looted' and abandoned objects, melancholic about the ruins of war and the ghostly Greek presence, and cynical about the banal apparatus of the state, whether its documents, laws, or occupations. Intimate conversations with philosophers and theorists weave in and out of profound ruminations on the details of people's interactions with their pregnant material worlds in this unique study that reveals anthropology's incisive beauty."-- Lila Abu-Lughod , Columbia University, "Navaro-Yashin's book is a serious and intriguing exploration... Navaro-Yashin's work strongly engages this conflict [in Cypriot identity] and, in so doing, enlivens and broadens the social science discourse on Cyprus." - Bayard E. Lyons, Social Analysis, " The Make-Believe Space is a genuinely important and lucidly written book. The theoretical originality that oozes from every single chapter renders it a very inspiring political ethnography." - Erden Evren, American Ethnologist, "Can the experience of citizenship in an illegitimate state reveal something about state making more generally? In her insightful account of Northern Cyprus as 'make-believe' space, Yael Navaro-Yashin traces the diverse practices--imaginative, material, and affective--that craft this de facto polity, both as fantasy and as tangible truth. In the process, she offers profound insight into what it is that makes nation-states believable everywhere."-- Jean Comaroff , University of Chicago, "Navaro-Yashin's sustained study of the effects of war, displacement, political authoritarianism, and the existential gap between officially sanctioned and actually lived sentiments is not only convincing in its theoretical acuity, breadth, and originality, but it also plays the role of an intervention in its own right through its meticulous witnessing of the suffering of her informants and of their human dignity in the aftermath of terror and in the midst of adversity." - Nicolas Argenti, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, "An unforgettable ethnography of a nation-state whose special status sharpens our eyes to the make-believe quality of every state. Yael Navaro-Yashin's evocative writing brings to life the scarred landscapes of Northern Cyprus and the affective worlds of Turkish-Cypriots who inhabit them--uncomfortable with 'looted' and abandoned objects, melancholic about the ruins of war and the ghostly Greek presence, and cynical about the banal apparatus of the state, whether its documents, laws, or occupations. Intimate conversations with philosophers and theorists weave in and out of profound ruminations on the details of people's interactions with their pregnant material worlds in this unique study that reveals anthropology's incisive beauty."-- Lila Abu-Lughod , Columbia University "Can the experience of citizenship in an illegitimate state reveal something about state making more generally? In her insightful account of Northern Cyprus as 'make-believe' space, Yael Navaro-Yashin traces the diverse practices--imaginative, material, and affective--that craft this de facto polity, both as fantasy and as tangible truth. In the process, she offers profound insight into what it is that makes nation-states believable everywhere."-- Jean Comaroff , University of Chicago "Navaro-Yashin's book is a serious and intriguing exploration... Navaro-Yashin's work strongly engages this conflict [in Cypriot identity] and, in so doing, enlivens and broadens the social science discourse on Cyprus." -- Bayard E. Lyons Social Analysis "This book is a must-read for scholars interested in the Mediterranean region as well as those with a more general interest in the intermingling of politics,materiality and affect." -- Mikkel Bille Ethnos " The Make-Believe Space is a genuinely important and lucidly written book. The theoretical originality that oozes from every single chapter renders it a very inspiring political ethnography." -- Erden Evren American Ethnologist " The Make-Believe Space is a very rich account of a violently partitioned spectral space, a stunted temporality, a haunted and cynical people, and a state with no stability, legitimacy, or recognition. It is well written and full of interesting stories. It is innovative in its focus on materiality and affect. I would highly recommend it to those interested in affect theory, material objects, and state formation in post-war contexts." -- Banu Gökariksel The Australian Journal of Anthropology " The Make-Believe Space will appeal to readers in search of an analysis of statecraft that troubles the grounding of its legitimacy and authority in the law. As an ethnographic encounter with critical theory, the book also offers rich material to scholars studying the politics of affect and the socio-materialities of natural and built environments." -- Kabir Tambar PoLAR, The Make-Believe Space is a genuinely important and lucidly written book. The theoretical originality that oozes from every single chapter renders it a very inspiring political ethnography.
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
956.9304
Table Of Content
Preface ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: The Make-Believe Space 1 Part I. Spatial Transformation 1. The Materiality of Sovereignty 37 2. Repopulating a Territory 51 3. The Affects of Spatial Confinement 62 Part II. Administration 4. Administration and Affect 81 5. The Affective Life of Documents 97 Part III. Objects and Dwellings 6. Abjected Spaces, Debris of War 129 7. Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects 161 8. Home, Law and the Uncanny 176 9. Collectibles of War and the Tangibility of Affect 202 Epilogue 215 Notes 223 Works Cited 247 Index 261
Synopsis
The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern Cyprus," carved out as a separate space and defined as a distinct (de facto) polity since its invasion by Turkey in 1974, is the subject of this ethnography about postwar politics and social relations. Turkish-Cypriots' sociality in a reforged geography, rid of its former Greek-Cypriot inhabitants after the partition of Cyprus, forms the centerpiece of Yael Navaro-Yashin's conceptual exploration of subjectivity in the context of "ruination" and "abjection." The unrecognized state in Northern Cyprus unfolds through the analytical devices that she develops as she explores this polity's administration and raison d'être via affect theory. Challenging the boundaries between competing theoretical orientations, Navaro-Yashin crafts a methodology for the study of subjectivity and affect, and materiality and the phantasmatic, in tandem. In the process, she creates a subtle and nuanced ethnography of life in the long-term aftermath of war., This is an anthropological look at the Turkish territory of Northern Cyprus, a self-defined state, which is actually imaginary (because it is only recognized by Turkey). Navaro-Yashin surveys the affective landscape, examining the sense of haunted property and objects lost and gained in the partition, along with peoples relation to the fictive remapping of places and history by this new state., The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern Cyprus," carved out as a separate space and defined as a distinct (de facto) polity since its invasion by Turkey in 1974, is the subject of this ethnography about postwar politics and social relations. Turkish-Cypriots' sociality in a reforged geography, rid of its former Greek-Cypriot inhabitants after the partition of Cyprus, forms the centerpiece of Yael Navaro-Yashin's conceptual exploration of subjectivity in the context of "ruination" and "abjection." The unrecognized state in Northern Cyprus unfolds through the analytical devices that she develops as she explores this polity's administration and raison d' tre via affect theory. Challenging the boundaries between competing theoretical orientations, Navaro-Yashin crafts a methodology for the study of subjectivity and affect, and materiality and the phantasmatic, in tandem. In the process, she creates a subtle and nuanced ethnography of life in the long-term aftermath of war.
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