Turkish National Identity and Its Outsiders - 9781138207158

Taylor & Francis

Turkish National Identity and Its OutsidersMemories of State Violence in Dersim\nAuthor(s): Ozlem Goner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138207158, 978-1138207158\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the ways in which states and nations are constructed and legitimated through defining and managing outsiders. Focusing on Turkey and the municipality of Dersim a region that has historically combined different outsider identities, including Armenian, Kurdish, and Alevi identities the author explores the remembering, transformation and mobilisation of everyday relations of power and the manner in which relationships with the state shape both outsider identities and the conception of the nation itself.\n\nTogether with a discussion of the recent decade in which the history, identity, and nature of Dersim have been central to various social and political organisations, the author concentrates on three defining periods of sta.