TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aras,Ramazan
TI  - The formation of Kurdishness in Turkey: political violence, fear and pain 
T2  - Routledge studies in middle eastern politics
SN  - 9780415824187 (hardback)
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Partiya Karkeren Kurdistane
KW  - Kurds
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - Autonomy and independence movements
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Political violence
KW  - National characteristics, Kurdish
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 'The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain through an analysis of life stories, personal narratives and testimonies of Kurdish subjects in contemporary Turkey. It traces the physical and psychological impacts of the war between the state security forces and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) guerrillas in the last three decades, in Kurdish populated areas in the south-eastern part of Turkey. Focusing on the instrumentalization of violence, the ensuing and manufactured culture of fear, gendered experiences of state violence, pain, incarceration, and corporeal punishment, Ramazan Aras argues that these phenomena have shaped contemporary Kurdish history and memory. Analysing occurrences of various forms of protracted state violence and fear not only as personal and differential markers experienced by individuals, but also as communally-felt phenomena which have engendered collective suffering, this book asserts that these traumatic experiences have marked the social body and produced a prevailing narrative of Kurdishness.Providing an anthropological study of political violence, fear, and pain amongst the Kurdish community in Turkey, this book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Kurdish Studies, Middle East Studies and Anthropology'--
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