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Olga Demetriou - Capricious Borders: Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey - 9780857458988 - V9780857458988
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Capricious Borders: Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey

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Description for Capricious Borders: Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey Hardcover. Borders of states, borders of citizenship, borders of exclusion. As the lines drawn on international treaty maps become ditches in the ground and roaming barriers in the air, a complex state apparatus is set up to regulate the lives of those who cannot be expelled, yet those who have never been properly "rooted." Num Pages: 220 pages, 21 figs, 5 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVT; JFFN; JFSL1; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 470.

Borders of states, borders of citizenship, borders of exclusion. As the lines drawn on international treaty maps become ditches in the ground and roaming barriers in the air, a complex state apparatus is set up to regulate the lives of those who cannot be expelled, yet who have never been properly ‘rooted’. This study explores the mechanisms employed at the interstices of two opposing views on the presence of minority populations in western Thrace: the legalization of their status as établis (established) and the failure to incorporate the minority in the Greek national imaginary. Revealing the logic of government ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857458988
SKU
V9780857458988
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99-15

About Olga Demetriou
Olga Demetriou is a social anthropologist based at the Cyprus Centre of the Peace Research Institute Oslo and teaches at the University of Cyprus. Apart from Capricious Borders she has also authored Refugeehood and the Post-Conflict Subject and co-edited, with Rozita Dimova, The Political Materialities of Borders. 

Reviews for Capricious Borders: Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey
“Demetriou explores this dynamic of minoritization in a series of brilliant ethnographic chapters… [Her] attentiveness to the social, spatial, material, and administrative articulation of the ‘minority’ as an object of biopolitical concern and state conduct makes this an important text for scholars interested in dynamics of minoritization well beyond the regional context of Southeast Europe that is the focus of ... Read more

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