Police, provocation, politics counterinsurgency in Istanbul

In Police, Provocation, Politics, Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual conflict, and ethno-sectarian discord by the state security apparatus. Situating Turkish policing with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yonucu, Deniz
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY ; London Cornell University Press 2022, ©2022
Series:Police/worlds: studies in security, crime, and governance
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Population, Provocative Counterorganization, and the War on Politics
  • The Possibility of Politics : People's Committees, Sanctuary Spaces, and Dissensus
  • "Gazas of Istanbul" : Threatening Alliances and Militarized Spatial Control
  • Provocative Counterorganization : Violent Interpellation, Low-Intensity Conflict, Ethnosectarian Enclaves
  • Good Vigilantism, Bad Vigilantism : Crime, Community Justice, Mimetic Policing, and the Antiterror Laws
  • Inspirational Hauntings : Undercover Police and the Spirits of Solidarity and Resistance
  • Gezi Uprisings : The Long Summer of Solidarity, and Resistance and the Great Divide
  • Epilogue : Policing as the Generation of (Dis)Order