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The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern Cyprus," carved out as a separate space and defined as a distinct (de facto) polity since its invasion by Turkey in 1974, is the subject of this ethnography about postwar politics and social relations. Turkish-Cypriots' sociality in a reforged geography, rid of its former Greek-Cypriot inhabitants after the partition of Cyprus, forms the centerpiece of Yael Navaro-Yashin's conceptual exploration of subjectivity in the context of "ruination" and "abjection." The unrecognized state in Northern Cyprus unfolds through the analytical devices that she develops as she explores this polity's administration and raison d'être via affect theory. Challenging the boundaries between competing theoretical orientations, Navaro-Yashin crafts a methodology for the study of subjectivity and affect, and materiality and the phantasmatic, in tandem. In the process, she creates a subtle and nuanced ethnography of life in the long-term aftermath of war.

The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern Cyprus," carved out as a separate space and defined as a distinct (de facto) polity since its invasion by Turkey in 1974, is the subject of this ethnography about postwar politics and social relations. Turkish-Cypriots' sociality in a reforged geography, rid of its former Greek-Cypriot inhabitants after the partition of Cyprus, forms the centerpiece of Yael Navaro-Yashin's conceptual exploration of subjectivity in the context of "ruination" and "abjection." The unrecognized state in Northern Cyprus unfolds through the analytical devices that she develops as she explores this polity's administration and raison d'être via affect theory. Challenging the boundaries between competing theoretical orientations, Navaro-Yashin crafts a methodology for the study of subjectivity and affect, and materiality and the phantasmatic, in tandem. In the process, she creates a subtle and nuanced ethnography of life in the long-term aftermath of war.

Kurmaca Mek n: Kuzey Kibris'in Duygu Cografyasi, Yael Navaro'nun Kuzey Kibris Turk Cumhuriyeti'nde, sinirin h l kapali oldugu donemde (1998-2003 arasinda) yuruttugu etnografik bir arastirmaya dayaniyor. Navaro'nun analitik bir kategori olarak kullandigi "kurmaca" yalnizca mek n ve ulkeye degil, yonetime ve maddi pratiklere de gonderme yapiyor. Kitabin yanitlamaya calistigi temel sorular arasinda sunlar var: Kurmaca bir mek n nasil yaratilir? ozellikleri nelerdir? Hangi pratiklerle olusur? Nasil bir hissiyati vardir? Kibrisli Turklerle yapilan gorusmelere dayanan bu calisma, onlarin kuzey Kibris icindeki ve disindaki hayatlarini ve deneyimlerini etnografik bir perspektiften acikliyor ve kuzey Kibris'i bir duygu cografyasi olarak inceliyor; kuzey Kibris, hayaletimsi olanin gorunur ve somut hale geldigi bir mek n olarak karsimiza cikiyor. Kurmaca Mek n: Kuzey Kibris'in Duygu Cografyasi, Avrupa antropolojisi alaninda 2012'nin en iyi kitabi secilerek 2013'te Society for Europeanist Anthropology'nin William A. Douglass Odulu'nu kazanmistir.