1st Edition
Turkish National Identity and Its Outsiders Memories of State Violence in Dersim
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction: Outsiderness
Chapter 2. The Production of Dersim as an Outsider: Turkish State and the Nation in the 1930s
Chapter 3. Memory, Consciousness of History and Identity of Outsiderness: The Witness Generation
Chapter 4. Capitalism, Leftist Movements and the Transformation of Outsiderness: The Children Generation
Chapter 5. The PKK, State of Exception and the Paralysis of Outsiderness: The Grandchildren Generation
Chapter 6. Outsiderness: Transformations, Contestations, and Potentials
Index
Biography
Ozlem Goner is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY). She earned degrees in Political Science and Sociology from Bogazici University, Turkey and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her research interests focus on political sociology, memory, race and ethnicity, social movements, sociology of place and environment, qualitative methods, and classical, post-structural, postcolonial and feminist theory. Her work on memory and historicity; neoliberalism, environment and identity; and outsider identities in Turkey has been published in academic journals and edited volumes.
