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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778424403321

Autore

Jongerden Joost

Titolo

The settlement issue in Turkey and the Kurds : an analysis of spatial policies, modernity and war / / Joost Jongerden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2007

ISBN

1-282-39692-7

9786612396922

90-474-2011-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxix, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, , 1385-3376 ; ; v. 102

Disciplina

956.103

Soggetti

Kurds - Turkey - Social conditions - 20th century

Land settlement - Turkey - History - 20th century

Turkey Ethnic relations Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-348) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Soldiers and settlements: Turkish counter-insurgency and the strategy of environment deprivation -- Settling the Southeast: The rise and fall of a rehabilitation doctrine -- The integrated settlement network: Towards a new spatial organization of the countryside -- Settlement issue and settlement activities: The colonization of peoples and territories -- Claiming the land: Empirical observation on the ground -- Summary and conclusions -- Annex: Maps of the pilot projects.

Sommario/riassunto

In seeking to understand village evacuation in the Kurdistan region of Turkey in the 1980's and 1990's, 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.