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Zusatztext 68266661 Informationen zum Autor Olga Demetriou is a social anthropologist based at the Cyprus Centre of the Peace Research Institute Oslo and teaches at the University of Cyprus. Apart from Capricious Borders she has also authored Refugeehood and the Post-Conflict Subject and co-edited, with Rozita Dimova, The Political Materialities of Borders . Klappentext Borders of states, borders of citizenship, borders of exclusion. As the lines drawn on international treaty maps become ditches in the ground and roaming barriers in the air, a complex state apparatus is set up to regulate the lives of those who cannot be expelled, yet who have never been properly 'rooted'. This study explores the mechanisms employed at the interstices of two opposing views on the presence of minority populations in western Thrace: the legalization of their status as établis (established) and the failure to incorporate the minority in the Greek national imaginary. Revealing the logic of government bureaucracy shows how they replicate difference from the inter-state level to the communal and the personal. "This book is well-conceived, coherently structured, beautifully written and analytically sophisticated. It is a thoughtful, insightful and persuasively argued account of how through marriage, land transactions, naming, etc., the traces of the state underpin the construction and production of 'minority'." * Hastings Donnan, Queens University, Belfast "This is a truly excellent ethnography of the complexities of identity and existence for Turkish-speakers of Northern Greece. It is meticulously researched, thorough and immensely interesting in its exposition of the conflicted subjectivities of the Turkish minorities of contemporary Greece - a much needed, crucial contribution to the anthropology of south-eastern Europe, the anthropology politics, states and nationalism, and of ethnicity, identity, and subjectivity." * Yael Navaro-Yashin, University of Cambridge "This is an excellent piece of ethnographic writing on the anthropology of border regions. It refers to the area of Thrace in the Northeast Greek-Turkish borders. It is a rare example of a non-partisan account of daily life among ethnic minorities in Southeastern Europe." * Eftihia Voutira, University of Macedonia Zusammenfassung Borders of states, borders of citizenship, borders of exclusion. As the lines drawn on international treaty maps become ditches in the ground and roaming barriers in the air, a complex state apparatus is set up to regulate the lives of those who cannot be expelled, yet those who have never been properly "rooted." Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Cotton, Smoke, Sunflowers Chapter 2. Heritage, History, Legacies Chapter 3. Counter-Bordering Chapter 4. Naming and Counter-names Chapter 5. The Politics of Genealogy Chapter 6. Grounds of State Care Chapter 7. The Self-excluding Community Chapter 8. The Political Life of Marriage Conclusion: Being Political Post-script: Border Lives ...
