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The Politics of the Digital Technoscape in Turkey: Surveillance and Resistance of Kurds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Burçe Çelik
Burçe Çelik*
Affiliation:
New Media Department, Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul, burce.celik@bahcesehir.edu.tr
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Abstract

This paper explores how the state employs digital technologies in its pacification of dissident political bodies, subjectivities, and communicative capabilities. It explores strategies of resistance to the surveillance practices which come to the fore as a state form, as a means of social control, and as a mechanism for creating manageable and disciplined crowds. Drawing upon ethnographic data, it focuses on the contemporary politics of the Kurdish movement in Turkey. In particular, it analyses the digitized surveillance and resistance of Kurds, both of which function as crucial components of contemporary power regimes in Turkey.

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Kurds of Turkeysurveillanceresistancedigital technologiesGezi
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 49 , Fall 2013 , pp. 31 - 56
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2013

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