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This essay interrogates whether existent analytical tools remain adequate to identify and assess what is perceived as the revival of fascistic tendencies today, ultimately arguing that they are not. Fascism cannot be expected to assume the same forms it did a century ago. Class structures, resource distribution schemes, communication potentials, and modes of belonging and exclusion have undergone significant changes. To determine which of the traits of the contemporary power paradigm would foreground new fascistic tendencies, this essay first revisits some of the most crucial insights in Hannah Arendt's study of the origins of totalitarianism. Arendt's perspective is highly valuable in moving the discussion of fascism beyond the delineation of specific historical events toward a theory of fascist power. The point is to distill from Arendt's insights into the connections among imperialism, fascism, and totalitarianism a number of techniques of government that would enable us to repeat the gesture today, but this time within the biopolitics-security-neoliberalism nexus. The power paradigm that this essay (re)constructs is meant to contribute to identifying fascistic and totalitarian trends irrespective of ideological and historiographic differences.

AbstractThis paper explores two examples of collective action, the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, and the Kurdish movement in Turkey, by focusing on how these movements constructed two particular places, Diyarbakir and Chiapas, after the armed conflict subsided. My first aim is to show how this place-making has affected the discourses and practices of these movements. I argue that place-making is not only about locality or physical setting, but also about constructing a movement and a form of struggle in its own right. My second aim is to discuss the broad outlines of what may be called the "appropriation of space." This refers not only to the spaces of visibility and solidarity opened up by a movement, but also to its chances of acquiring significance within local, national or global spaces of power. I look at how the Kurdish movement has had an impact on democracy in Turkey and compare it with the Zapatista movements local and transnational effects. I do so by relating physical and metaphorical notions of space to several concepts generated by social movement literature. As such, this study intends to contribute to spatial understandings of collective action. It is also likely to indicate various pitfalls and obstacles for emancipatory social movements in the present neoliberal era.

"In the East, understanding is a surreptitious shroud."Kemal Varol"Men come into existence through their struggles"This study aims to contribute to efforts to understand how redress occurs in local contexts impaired by armed conflict. Its particular focus is on events, dynamics and forms of relationality that (re)create public spheres on a local level. It takes the city of Diyarbakır, the largest in Southeastern Turkey, as the vantage point from which to explore the transformation of a site of violent conflict into a space for the expression of differences that were either nonexistent or suppressed. Since the beginning of the armed uprising of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 1984, the majority of political actors in Diyarbakır have in effect been polarized into two antagonistic camps (the Turkish state vs. the PKK). With the end of armed conflict five years ago, Diyarbakır has been astoundingly transformed into a paradise for civil society activists. The dynamics through which new urban spaces of existence and of expression have been created have not ceased being conflictual. In exploring the formative function of micro and macro struggles on publicness, the theoretical intent of this study is to argue against the Habermasian conceptualization of the public sphere.

The Kurdish Issue in Turkey from a spatial perspective / Zeynep Gambetti and Joost Jongerden -- PART I: MAKING AND REMAKING THE SOUTHEAST -- Space, state-making and contentious Kurdish politics in the East of Turkey : the case of Eastern Meetings, 1967 / Azad Gundogan -- Diyarbakir's "Witness Sites" and discourses on the "Kurdish Question" in Turkey / Eray Cayli -- What is hidden beneath the Mor Gabriel Monastery wall? Consolidating borders between self and other, self and the state / Zerrin Ozlem Biner -- An ethnographic account of compulsory public service by doctors in Hakkari : The limits of the AKP assimilation strategy and the production of space / Ilker Corut -- Beyond Kurdistan? The Mesopotamia Social Forum and the appropriation and re-imagination of Mesopotamia by the Kurdish movement / Marlies Casier -- PART II: KURDISH STRUGGLES IN URBAN SPACES -- Generational differences in political mobilization among Kurdish forced migrants : The case of Istanbul's Kanarya Mahallesi / Gulay Kilicaslan -- Space, capitalism and Kurdish migrants in Izmir : an analysis of Kadifekale's Transformation / Neslihan Demirtas-Milz and Cenk Saracoglu -- Rescaled localities and redefined class relations : neoliberal experience in south-east Turkey / Ayse Seda Yuksel -- Politics of privacy : forced migration and the spatial struggle of the Kurdish youth in Adana / Haydar Darici -- Ethnicity, social tensions and production of space in forced migration neighbourhoods of Mersin / Ali Ekber Dogan and Bediz Yilmaz -- PART III: SPACES OF SEASONAL MIGRATION -- Embodiment of space and labor : Kurdish migrant workers in Turkish agriculture / Deniz Duruiz -- The transformation of the private home of Kurdish seasonal workers / Iclal Ayse Kucukkirca.

"This volume gives a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the Kurdish issue in Turkey from a spatial perspective that takes into account geographical variations in identity formation, exclusion and political mobilisation. Although analysis of Turkey's Kurdish issue from a spatial perspective is not new, spatial analyses are still relatively scarce. More often than not, Kurdish studies consist of time-centred work. In this book, the attention is shifted from outcome-oriented analysis of transformation in time towards a spatial analysis. The authors in this book discuss the spatial production of home, identity, work, in short, of being in the world. The contributions are based on the tacit avowal that the Kurdish question, in addition to being a question of group rights, is also one of spatial relations. By asking a different set of questions, this book examines; which spatial strategies have been employed to deal with Kurds? Which spatial strategies are developed by Kurds to deal with state, and with the neo-liberal turn? How are these strategies absorbed and what counter-strategies are developed, both in cities populated by the Kurds in south-eastern Turkey and in other regions? Emphasizing that identity or place, its particularity or uniqueness, arises from social practices and social relations, this book is essential reading for scholars and researchers working in Kurdish and Turkish Studies, Urban and Rural Studies and Politics more broadly"--

Revisiting the concept of totalitarianism, together with & in spite of Slavoj Zizek, has utmost importance at a time when the post-9/11 world takes on totalitarian forms. These forms seem to escape both the logic of "everyday totalitarianism," as elaborated by Zizek, & that of "Empire," described by Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri. References. Adapted from the source document.