- Title
- Public violence in Turkey from the nineteenth century onwards
- Creator
- Kieser, Hans-Lukas
- Relation
- Collective and state violence in Turkey: the construction of a national identity from empire to nation-state p. 480-503
- Relation
- https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AstourianCollective
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Public violence is publicly visible and audible. Although modern technology has made previously remote instances of violence selectively accessible to a broad public, this chapter concentrates on collective ‘public violence’. It does not deal with military or domestic (family) violence. It analyses the public spectacle of, and discourse on, violence from late Ottoman to twenty-first century Turkey. It is therefore about sociopolitical violence that is not only visible but involves members of the public, either verbally or in action. Such violence may be organized, supported, tolerated or opposed by state authorities. Remaining largely unpunished – like the notorious lynch violence endemic in parts of the United States until the mid-twentieth century – it repeated itself. Such public violence destroys public confidence and the construction of a real, consensual social contract. It is both a sign and a factor of polarized society that lacks basic peace. Th e bar for peace is set particularly high in the Levant, the home of monotheisms that have produced divergent eschatological expectations – and delusions.
- Subject
- public violence; military; domestic (family); Turkey
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1434804
- Identifier
- uon:39511
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781789204513
- Language
- eng
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