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

Navaro, Yael

Duke University Press（2012/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822352044
• DDC分類 956.9304

Full Description

The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern Cyprus," carved out as a separate space and defined as a distinct (de facto) polity since its invasion by Turkey in 1974, is the subject of this ethnography about postwar politics and social relations. Turkish-Cypriots' sociality in a reforged geography, rid of its former Greek-Cypriot inhabitants after the partition of Cyprus, forms the centerpiece of Yael Navaro-Yashin's conceptual exploration of subjectivity in the context of "ruination" and "abjection." The unrecognized state in Northern Cyprus unfolds through the analytical devices that she develops as she explores this polity's administration and raison d'être via affect theory. Challenging the boundaries between competing theoretical orientations, Navaro-Yashin crafts a methodology for the study of subjectivity and affect, and materiality and the phantasmatic, in tandem. In the process, she creates a subtle and nuanced ethnography of life in the long-term aftermath of war.

Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction: The Make-Believe Space 1

Part I. Spatial Transformation

1. The Materiality of Sovereignty 37

2. Repopulating a Territory 51

3. The Affects of Spatial Confinement 62

Part II. Administration

4. Administration and Affect 81

5. The Affective Life of Documents 97

Part III. Objects and Dwellings

6. Abjected Spaces, Debris of War 129

7. Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects 161

8. Home, Law and the Uncanny 176

9. Collectibles of War and the Tangibility of Affect 202

Epilogue 215

Notes 223

Works Cited 247

Index 261