Sovereignty suspended : building the so-called state /
All Cypriots have lived for more than forty years with the political, economic and psychological consequences of an unresolved conflict and a divided island. Moreover, as citizens of an unrecognized state, Turkish Cypriots' ability to do well or to continue doing well is always improvisatory, a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Ethnography of political violence.
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| Summary: | All Cypriots have lived for more than forty years with the political, economic and psychological consequences of an unresolved conflict and a divided island. Moreover, as citizens of an unrecognized state, Turkish Cypriots' ability to do well or to continue doing well is always improvisatory, as they constantly adapt to whatever limitations are being imposed on their ability to trade, study and travel. Despite the conflict, citizens of the recognized RoC are able to plan their lives and the lives of their children with the assumption that they will continue to live in a recognized, EU-member state. Citizens of the so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, live their daily lives with what they invariably call belirsizlik, uncertainty. That uncertainty arises from not knowing one's place in the world, from not being "seen" or recognized, and from the knowledge that the shape, form, and substance of their so-called state could be significantly altered with a pen stroke. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812252217 0812252217 |