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The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds: an Analysis of Spatial Policies, Modernity and War

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Abstract

In seeking to understand village evacuation in the Kurdistan region of Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s, this book focuses on the spatial aspects of the armed conflict. It tries to explain how settlement and resettlement policies and practices in Turkey have been part of a larger project of political and cultural engineering, based on a revision of a classical understanding of modernity as reflected in the work of Durkheim, Mauss, and Tönnies. This interdisciplinary perspective has allowed contributions from sociology to the political sciences and from history to social geography.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLeiden & Boston
PublisherBrill
Number of pages354
ISBN (Print)9789004155572
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Publication series

NameSocial, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia (S.E.P.S.M.E.A.)
PublisherBrill
No.vol. 102
ISSN (Print)1385-3376

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

  • settlement patterns
  • settlement
  • ethnic groups
  • minorities
  • war
  • government policy
  • turkey
  • kurdistan
  • guerrilla
  • rebellion
  • national politics

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