Smuggling Law
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Smuggling Law

Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands

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Smuggling Law

Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands

About this book

The Kurdish-populated Wan/Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish smugglers cross this 180-mile-long land border, transporting everyday consumer goods—fuel, tobacco, sugar, and tea—as well as more illicit goods, and the province supports the financial, technical, and labor capacities that sustain these smuggling economies. As the Turkish state has enacted increasingly punitive anti-smuggling laws, smuggling has also become a site of contentious politics. This book explores anti-smuggling law enforcement and criminal prosecutions to reveal a key site—the criminal court—where borders and claims of sovereignty are simultaneously remade and disrupted.

  Taking readers from border villages, mountain passes, and road checkpoints to courtrooms, law offices, and forensic laboratories, F?rat Bozçal? examines how Kurdish smugglers, with the help of their lawyers, legally disrupt state sovereignty in criminal courts. Kurdish smugglers and lawyers adopt and rework procedures, rules, and reasonings in ways that interrupt the courts' capacity to coopt, discipline, and oppress. Bozçal? theorizes this evasive engagement with the legal system as a strategy of techno-legal politics among marginalized and persecuted groups, one that extends beyond the Kurdish case. Smuggling Law holds profound relevance in today's world, where ever-expanding regimes of surveillance, oppression, and dispossession unfold in the broader contexts of the global war on terror and data-driven capitalism.

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Yes, you can access Smuggling Law by Fırat Bozçalı,Fırat Bozçali in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Middle Eastern History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Note on Naming
  8. Map of Wan/Van Province and Its Border Districts
  9. Map of Greater Kurdistan Geography
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. A Site of Many Struggles
  12. 2. The Cunning of Law
  13. 3. Borderwork
  14. 4. Counterforensics
  15. 5. Noncollaboration
  16. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index