The Make-Believe Space by Yael Navaro - 9780822351931

The Make-Believe SpaceAffective Geography in a Postwar Polity\nAuthor(s): Yael Navaro\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822351931, 978-0822351931\nSynopsis\nThe 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 a.