Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory

Banu Bargu is Associate Professor of History of Consciousness and Political Theory in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her main area of specialisation is political theory, with a thematic focus on theories of sovereignty, biopolitics, and resistance. She is the author of the award-winning book Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2014).

• 1. Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Notes Towards an InvestigationBanu BarguPart I: Politicising Death: Sovereign Cartographies of Violence2. ‘These are Ordinary Things’: Regulation of Death under the AKP RegimeOnur Bakıner3. ‘They Wrote History with Their Body’: Necrogeopolitics, Necropolitical Spaces and the Everyday Spatial Politics of Death in TurkeyLerna K. Yanık and Fulya Hisarlıoğlu4. Neither Civilian, Nor Combatant: Weaponised Spaces and Spatialised Bodies in CizreHaydar Darıcı and Serra HakyemezPart II: Negotiating Life: Resistance and Democracy5. The Necropolitics of Documents and the Slow Death of Prisoners in Turkey Başak Can6. Proper Subjects of Gendered Necropolitics: A Case of Constructed Virginities in TurkeyElif Savaş7. Necropolitics, Martyrdom, and Muslim Conscientious ObjectionPınar Kemerli8. The Use of Blood Money in the Establishment of Non-Justice: Necrodomination and ResistanceCem Özatalay, Gözde Aytemur Nüfusçu, and Gülistan Zeren9. Money for Life: Border Killings, Compensation Claims and Life-Money Conversions in Turkey’s Kurdish BorderlandsFırat BozçalıPart III: Political Afterlives: Governing The Living And The Dead10. Another NecropoliticsBanu Bargu11. The Cemetery of TraitorsOsman Balkan12. Nightmare-Knowledges: Epistemologies of DisappearanceEge Selin IslekelIndex

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