Embattled Dreamlands
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"Whether it is the politics of memory or the histoire croisée of Anatolia or deep dives into discourses, David Leupold has something important to tell us that transcends the embattled dreamlands that are at the center of this extraordinary book."
From the foreword by Ronald G. Suny, the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan
"A model of interdisciplinary scholarship that helps us understand how the intricacies of statecraft can be deployed to direct and transform historical thinking. Leupold brings a rich past back to life in this multi-layered (and impressively polyglot) study."
Bruce Grant, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, New York University
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Embattled Dreamlands explores the complex relationship between competing national myths, imagined boundaries and local memories in the threefold-contested geography referred to as Eastern Turkey, Western Armenia or Northern Kurdistan. Les mer
Spatially rooted in the shatter zone of the post-Ottoman and post-Soviet space, it sheds light on the multi-layered memory landscape of the Lake Van region in Southeastern Turkey, where collective violence stretches back from the Armenian Genocide to the Kurdish conflict of today. Based on his fieldwork in Turkey and Armenia, the author examines how states work to construct and monopolize collective memory by narrating, silencing, mapping and performing the past, and how these narratives might help to contribute and resolve present-day conflicts.
By looking at how national discourses are constructed and asking hard questions about why nations are imagined as exclusive and hostile to others, Embattled Dreamlands provides a unique insight into the development of national identity which will provide a great resource to students and researchers in sociology and history alike.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 248
- ISBN
- 9780367361457
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«
"Whether it is the politics of memory or the histoire croisée of Anatolia or deep dives into discourses, David Leupold has something important to tell us that transcends the embattled dreamlands that are at the center of this extraordinary book."
From the foreword by Ronald G. Suny, the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan
"A model of interdisciplinary scholarship that helps us understand how the intricacies of statecraft can be deployed to direct and transform historical thinking. Leupold brings a rich past back to life in this multi-layered (and impressively polyglot) study."
Bruce Grant, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, New York University
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