The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity

In The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity, anthropologist Yael Navaro-Yashin explores life in the self-declared, yet internationally unrecognized, Turkish Cypriot state in northern Cyprus. Since 1974, following ethnic violence and the division of the island, Turkish Cypriots...

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Published in:Social Analysis 2012, Vol.56 (3), p.143-145
Main Author: Lyons, Bayard E.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Abandonments
Ethnicity
Geography
International relations
Minority & ethnic violence
Reunification
Social sciences
Turkish language
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Summary:In The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity, anthropologist Yael Navaro-Yashin explores life in the self-declared, yet internationally unrecognized, Turkish Cypriot state in northern Cyprus. Since 1974, following ethnic violence and the division of the island, Turkish Cypriots have lived in the northern portion of the island. [...]Navaro-Yashin's innovative work touches on class, a topic infrequently addressed in the social science literature on Turkish Cyprus.
ISSN:0155-977X
1558-5727