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Author Yonucu, Deniz, 1979- author.

Title Police, provocation, politics : counterinsurgency in Istanbul / Deniz Yonucu.

Publication Info. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Series Police/worlds : studies in security, crime, and governance
Police/worlds.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "Situating Turkish counterinsurgent policing within a global context of Cold War counterinsurgencies that inform current security practices and combining archival work and oral history with ethnographic research in Istanbul's dissident working-class neighborhoods, the book sheds light on counterinsurgency's provocative, affect generating, divisive techniques and urban dimensions"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Law enforcement -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- Istanbul.
Counterinsurgency -- Turkey -- Istanbul.
Internal security -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- Istanbul.
Political violence -- Turkey -- Istanbul.
Government, Resistance to -- Turkey -- Istanbul.
Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1980-
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Counterinsurgency.
Government, Resistance to.
Law enforcement -- Political aspects.
Political violence.
Politics and government.
Turkey.
Turkey -- Istanbul.
Chronological Term Since 1980
Indexed Term turkish counterinsurgency, revolutionary left in turkey, alevi neighborhoods, police violence in turkey, gezi uprisings, gazi massacre.
Other Form: Print version: Yonucu, Deniz, 1979- Police, provocation, politics Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501762154 (DLC) 2021041154
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