Ruined futures

Managing instability in post-earthquake Van (Turkey)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2256573
AutoresMarlene Schäfers (0000-0001-8992-7926, Division of Social Anthropology; Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge; Cambridge CB2 3RF UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume24
Fascículo2
Páginas228-242
Data de publicação2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0964-0282 • E-ISSN: 1469-8676
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1469-8676.12274
OpenAlexW2284049552
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas27

This article investigates how ruined materialities are implicated in projects of governance by affecting people's abilities to engage with the future. Based on ethnographic material from the Kurdish-inhabited city of Van (Turkey), which was heavily damaged by two earthquakes in 2011, I analyse Turkish state authorities' mobilisation of expertise regarding Van's ruined built environment as a form of techno-political governance. Yet as ruins' material properties continuously exceeded attempts at governing them, they created a particular structure of risk, thereby contributing to the formation of political subjects feeling themselves to be at the constant peril of both natural and political disaster

Business · Corporate governance · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Feeling · Futures contract · Geography · Management · Natural disaster · Political economy · Political instability · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Turkish · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure