Yael Navaro-Yashin
Biographic Data
| ID | 93186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yael Navaro-Yashin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yael |
| FAMILY NAME | Navaro-Yashin |
| SIGNATURE | NAVARO-YASHIN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 296 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Make-Believe Space
The Make-Believe Space
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 …
Confinement and the Imagination
Make-believe papers, legal forms and the counterfeit
This article studies the affects retained, carried, and effected by documents, as they are produced, exchanged, transformed, and transacted among their users. I study the interactions which Turkish-Cypriots (in Britain and on either side of the border in Cyprus) forge with documents, especially those used for identity verification and travel. For those who juggle documents manufactured by several complexes of law and statecraft (including the `il…
Affect in the civil service
‘I see the signs of a good deed [kismet] for you’, said the lady reading a fortune in the Turkish coffee cup. ‘A door will open for you in a state office [devlet dairesi]’, she said. ‘I see two men
Life is dead here
Using `no man's land' as metaphor for an abjected space outside the recognized domains of the international system, here Northern Cyprus, this article studies subjective experiences under an authoritarian regime. Inviting anthropologists of politics to `sense' the political that underlies contexts that would normalize disruption, the author here gathers signs, in the spatial surroundings and subjectivities in Northern Cyprus, of a glossed experie…
Faces of the State
Uses and Abuses of “State and Civil Society” in Contemporary Turkey
The categories of “state” and “civil society” have too often been used as oppositional terms in the social sciences and in public discourse. This article aims to problematize the concepts of “state” and “civil society” when perceived as separate and distinct entities in the discourses of social scientists as well as of members of contemporary social movements in Turkey. Rather than readily using state and society as analytical categories referrin…
Make-believe papers, legal forms and the counterfeit
This article studies the affects retained, carried, and effected by documents, as they are produced, exchanged, transformed, and transacted among their users. I study the interactions which Turkish-Cypriots (in Britain and on either side of the border in Cyprus) forge with documents, especially those used for identity verification and travel. For those who juggle documents manufactured by several complexes of law and statecraft (including the `il…
Life is dead here
Using `no man's land' as metaphor for an abjected space outside the recognized domains of the international system, here Northern Cyprus, this article studies subjective experiences under an authoritarian regime. Inviting anthropologists of politics to `sense' the political that underlies contexts that would normalize disruption, the author here gathers signs, in the spatial surroundings and subjectivities in Northern Cyprus, of a glossed experie…
The Make-Believe Space
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 …
Uses and Abuses of “State and Civil Society” in Contemporary Turkey
The categories of “state” and “civil society” have too often been used as oppositional terms in the social sciences and in public discourse. This article aims to problematize the concepts of “state” and “civil society” when perceived as separate and distinct entities in the discourses of social scientists as well as of members of contemporary social movements in Turkey. Rather than readily using state and society as analytical categories referrin…
Affect in the civil service
‘I see the signs of a good deed [kismet] for you’, said the lady reading a fortune in the Turkish coffee cup. ‘A door will open for you in a state office [devlet dairesi]’, she said. ‘I see two men
Uses and Abuses of “State and Civil Society” in Contemporary Turkey
The categories of “state” and “civil society” have too often been used as oppositional terms in the social sciences and in public discourse. This article aims to problematize the concepts of “state” and “civil society” when perceived as separate and distinct entities in the discourses of social scientists as well as of members of contemporary social movements in Turkey. Rather than readily using state and society as analytical categories referrin…
Faces of the State
Life is dead here
Using `no man's land' as metaphor for an abjected space outside the recognized domains of the international system, here Northern Cyprus, this article studies subjective experiences under an authoritarian regime. Inviting anthropologists of politics to `sense' the political that underlies contexts that would normalize disruption, the author here gathers signs, in the spatial surroundings and subjectivities in Northern Cyprus, of a glossed experie…
Affect in the civil service
‘I see the signs of a good deed [kismet] for you’, said the lady reading a fortune in the Turkish coffee cup. ‘A door will open for you in a state office [devlet dairesi]’, she said. ‘I see two men
Make-believe papers, legal forms and the counterfeit
This article studies the affects retained, carried, and effected by documents, as they are produced, exchanged, transformed, and transacted among their users. I study the interactions which Turkish-Cypriots (in Britain and on either side of the border in Cyprus) forge with documents, especially those used for identity verification and travel. For those who juggle documents manufactured by several complexes of law and statecraft (including the `il…
Confinement and the Imagination
The Make-Believe Space
The Make-Believe Space
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 …
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (3 works)