Politics of Victims

"Customs/practices" that present citizenship as universal validity, but count some as citizens while excluding others without a name, have become considered among the ordinary activities of the modern state. These activities exclude the social content of citizenship and the notion of rights; It required those who were left out to produce solutions that could continue their own existence. For those who were said to be part of the promised community but were not treated as such, determining and claiming their rights also brought about involvement in the political society. A definition of citizenship that is said to be fixed in the narrative of the entire modern nation-state, but only weakly, did not include the victims it created in daily life and made identifiable only by their material impossibilities. This time, Partha Chatterjee puts his contribution to nationalism literature in a broader context and carries it to a different surface. It deals with the practices of living together as a society with the political positions and intervention strategies of the victims, whom the state coldly defines and tries to contain. Against the discourse of citizens of a monolithic, tightly knit nation, it discusses the processes in which some are more embraced and others are victimized by being left out. With a perspective that is not limited to a certain region as usual, but includes all societies of the period we live in...



Number of Pages: 224

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 224

First Print Year: 2006

Language Turkish