Ethnicity, Gender and the Border Economy: Living in the Turkey-Georgia Borderlands

Constituted by experience and memory, borders shape a "border imagination" in the minds and social memory of people beyond the lines of the state. In the case of the Turkey-Georgia border, the imagination of the border has often been constructed as an economic reality that creates "conditional permeabilities" rather than political emphases. This book puts forward the argument that participation in this economic life reshapes the relationship between ethnic groups who live in the borderland as well as gender relations. This book offers a rich empirically based account of the intersectional and multidimensional forms of economic activity in border regions. It will be of interest to students, researchers and policy makers alike working in Geography, Economics, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, International Relations and Political Studies.

Author: Latife Akyüz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/19/2018
Pages: 139
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9780367138776

About the Author

Latife Akyüz received her PhD from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2013. She has held positions as a visiting scholar at Indiana University (2010), Binghamton University (2011-12) and the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies, Liege University (2014). Her research interests are border regions, ethnicity, and gender studies, with her most recent work focusing on migrant Alevi women living in Europe. She was one of the editors of the Toplum ve Bilim (Society and Science) Special Issue on Borders and Border Studies in Turkey. She held the position of assistant professor at Duzce University from March 2014 until her suspension in 2016 due to her signing of the Academics for Peace petition.