Cyprus and its Places of Desire

Cultures of Displacement Among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19902249
EditoresLisa Dikomitis (0000-0002-5752-3270)
Año2012
Fecha de publicación2012-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaCyprus and its Places of Desire (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialI.B.Tauris (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755619696
OpenAlexW4249974816
Open LibraryOL26118586M
ISBN9780755619696
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

By the summer of 1974, the island of Cyprus was home to two separate refugee communities. Charting the displaced cultures of the Greek Cypriot community in the south, and that of the Turkish communities in the north, Lisa Dikomitis provides a moving and detailed qualitative ethnography of the refugee experience in Cyprus. In her groundbreaking study, made possible by the opening of the north/south border during fieldwork, Dikomitis demonstrates how both ethnic groups are linked by their histories of displacement to a single ‘place of desire’, a small mountainous village located in the north of the island. By identifying the specific social and cultural meanings that the notions of home, identity, justice and suffering have come to have for both populations, Cyprus and its Places of Desire will appeal to scholars and students of Cypriot, Turkish and Greek history as well as those with an interest in the fields of

Aesthetics · Appeal · Archaeology · Art · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Identity (music) · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Turkish · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Turkey's Politics and Society