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UNINA9910156167903321 |
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Autore |
Gönen Zeynep |
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Titolo |
The politics of crime in Turkey : neoliberalism, police and the urban poor / / by Zeynep Gönen |
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London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-350-98911-8 |
1-78672-054-X |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Collana |
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Library of modern Turkey ; ; 23 |
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Soggetti |
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Crime - Political aspects - Turkey |
Kurds - Turkey |
Neoliberalism - Turkey |
Police - Turkey |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Chapter One:The Neoliberal Penal State -- Chapter Two: Neoliberal Ideologies of Crime in Urban Turkey -- Chapter Three: The Crisis and Reinvention of the Police -- Chapter Four: Giuliani in Izmir: Restructuring Public Order Policing and -- Criminalizing the "Target Populations" -- Chapter Five: Policing a Kurdish Shantytown -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the 1990s. Concentrating on the attempts to 'modernize' the policing of Izmir, Zeynep Gonen highlights how the police force expanded their territorial control over the urban space, specifically targeting the poor and racialized segments of the city. Through in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations of these 'targeted' populations, as well as rare ethnographic data from the Turkish police, surveys of the media and politicians' rhetoric, Gonen shows how Kurdish migrants have been criminalized as dangerous 'enemies' of the order. In studying the ideological and material |
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