Fırat Bozçalı
Biographic Data
| ID | 112280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fırat Bozçalı |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fırat |
| FAMILY NAME | Bozçalı |
| SIGNATURE | BOZÇALI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3443-1075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Corridors of countersovereignty: Insurgency, smuggling, and post-nation-state politics in Turkey's Kurdish highlands
In Turkey's Kurdish borderlands, smugglers occasionally entered insurgent corridors, the guerrilla-controlled mountainous passages, to bypass state control. This article takes insurgent corridors to frame sovereignty as monopolization of space-making and proposes space-making as a key analytic to examine the forms of sovereignty that facilitate or undermine specific extractive practices. As a spatial form, corridors are central to the claiming an…
Proving injustice: Smuggler killings, impunity work, and vernacular counterforensics in Turkey's Kurdish borderlands
Kurdish smugglers have been targeted and killed by security forces in Turkey's Van borderlands systematically and with impunity. In response, the killed smugglers' families and their lawyers conducted what I call vernacular counterforensics-the forensic examination both of the killings and of the legal authorities' failure to investigate them properly. Associating the Kurdish borderlands with terrorism, the legal authorities often avoided collect…
Partners in crime: Smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey's Kurdish borderlands
When is a horse not just a pack animal but a criminal accomplice? When is a lamb more than just livestock, but a form of contraband or a witness in court? Pursuing these questions in Van, a Kurdish-majority province of Turkey bordering Iran, this article examines how human-animal collaborations facilitated Kurdish smuggling economies, or what locals called qaçax. I conceptualize qaçax and kaçak (the Turkish word from which it originated), as the …
Probabilistic borderwork: Oil smuggling, nonillegality, and techno-legal politics in the Kurdish borderlands of Turkey
How are borders made porous? In Turkey's Kurdish borderlands, smugglers are not just agents who operate under cover of night, but city-based traders whose legal practices create a third space in between legality and illegality. Kurdish oil traders accused of smuggling work closely with lawyers to perform what I call probabilistic borderwork. This is a deliberate counterstate political strategy that uses scientific uncertainty to challenge smuggli…
Probabilistic borderwork: Oil smuggling, nonillegality, and techno-legal politics in the Kurdish borderlands of Turkey
How are borders made porous? In Turkey's Kurdish borderlands, smugglers are not just agents who operate under cover of night, but city-based traders whose legal practices create a third space in between legality and illegality. Kurdish oil traders accused of smuggling work closely with lawyers to perform what I call probabilistic borderwork. This is a deliberate counterstate political strategy that uses scientific uncertainty to challenge smuggli…
Partners in crime: Smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey's Kurdish borderlands
When is a horse not just a pack animal but a criminal accomplice? When is a lamb more than just livestock, but a form of contraband or a witness in court? Pursuing these questions in Van, a Kurdish-majority province of Turkey bordering Iran, this article examines how human-animal collaborations facilitated Kurdish smuggling economies, or what locals called qaçax. I conceptualize qaçax and kaçak (the Turkish word from which it originated), as the …
Corridors of countersovereignty: Insurgency, smuggling, and post-nation-state politics in Turkey's Kurdish highlands
In Turkey's Kurdish borderlands, smugglers occasionally entered insurgent corridors, the guerrilla-controlled mountainous passages, to bypass state control. This article takes insurgent corridors to frame sovereignty as monopolization of space-making and proposes space-making as a key analytic to examine the forms of sovereignty that facilitate or undermine specific extractive practices. As a spatial form, corridors are central to the claiming an…
Proving injustice: Smuggler killings, impunity work, and vernacular counterforensics in Turkey's Kurdish borderlands
Kurdish smugglers have been targeted and killed by security forces in Turkey's Van borderlands systematically and with impunity. In response, the killed smugglers' families and their lawyers conducted what I call vernacular counterforensics-the forensic examination both of the killings and of the legal authorities' failure to investigate them properly. Associating the Kurdish borderlands with terrorism, the legal authorities often avoided collect…
Probabilistic borderwork: Oil smuggling, nonillegality, and techno-legal politics in the Kurdish borderlands of Turkey
How are borders made porous? In Turkey's Kurdish borderlands, smugglers are not just agents who operate under cover of night, but city-based traders whose legal practices create a third space in between legality and illegality. Kurdish oil traders accused of smuggling work closely with lawyers to perform what I call probabilistic borderwork. This is a deliberate counterstate political strategy that uses scientific uncertainty to challenge smuggli…
Corridors of countersovereignty: Insurgency, smuggling, and post-nation-state politics in Turkey's Kurdish highlands
In Turkey's Kurdish borderlands, smugglers occasionally entered insurgent corridors, the guerrilla-controlled mountainous passages, to bypass state control. This article takes insurgent corridors to frame sovereignty as monopolization of space-making and proposes space-making as a key analytic to examine the forms of sovereignty that facilitate or undermine specific extractive practices. As a spatial form, corridors are central to the claiming an…
Proving injustice: Smuggler killings, impunity work, and vernacular counterforensics in Turkey's Kurdish borderlands
Kurdish smugglers have been targeted and killed by security forces in Turkey's Van borderlands systematically and with impunity. In response, the killed smugglers' families and their lawyers conducted what I call vernacular counterforensics-the forensic examination both of the killings and of the legal authorities' failure to investigate them properly. Associating the Kurdish borderlands with terrorism, the legal authorities often avoided collect…
Partners in crime: Smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey's Kurdish borderlands
When is a horse not just a pack animal but a criminal accomplice? When is a lamb more than just livestock, but a form of contraband or a witness in court? Pursuing these questions in Van, a Kurdish-majority province of Turkey bordering Iran, this article examines how human-animal collaborations facilitated Kurdish smuggling economies, or what locals called qaçax. I conceptualize qaçax and kaçak (the Turkish word from which it originated), as the …
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