Umut Yıldırım – författare

The Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party engaged in a counterinsurgency war for nearly four decades. Over this period, Diyarbakır, the de facto capital of Greater Kurdistan, was a site of sieges and ceasefires, welfare and humanitarian relief, NGO interventions and decolonial resistance – the complementary, intertwined processes of low-intensity war. War turned urban slums into high-security frontiers and transactional hubs for policy design, and settled deep into embodied knowledges and environments.Through committed and engaged ethnography, Umut Yıldırım reveals how destruction and displacement became structures of extraction, by which the Turkish state subjugated the Kurdish population into an object to be intervened in, traded, and contained. She also tracks Kurdish efforts to reassert their own stories of war through fact-building, welfare and compensation, women's wellbeing, acts of solidarity, and environmental politics. What we see is a constant dance between war and peace, movement building and its containment, forced displacement and its rehabilitation, memory and its transmutations, environmental damage and its reconstruction. Extractive States offers compelling example of how low-intensity war transforms everyday needs, embodied knowledges, and uprooted populations into securitized knowledge – and how everyday sites of perseverance can reveal such extraction, and thus help conceive of novel modes of resistance.

The Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party engaged in a counterinsurgency war for nearly four decades. Over this period, Diyarbakır, the de facto capital of Greater Kurdistan, was a site of sieges and ceasefires, welfare and humanitarian relief, NGO interventions and decolonial resistance – the complementary, intertwined processes of low-intensity war. War turned urban slums into high-security frontiers and transactional hubs for policy design, and settled deep into embodied knowledges and environments.Through committed and engaged ethnography, Umut Yıldırım reveals how destruction and displacement became structures of extraction, by which the Turkish state subjugated the Kurdish population into an object to be intervened in, traded, and contained. She also tracks Kurdish efforts to reassert their own stories of war through fact-building, welfare and compensation, women's wellbeing, acts of solidarity, and environmental politics. What we see is a constant dance between war and peace, movement building and its containment, forced displacement and its rehabilitation, memory and its transmutations, environmental damage and its reconstruction. Extractive States offers compelling example of how low-intensity war transforms everyday needs, embodied knowledges, and uprooted populations into securitized knowledge – and how everyday sites of perseverance can reveal such extraction, and thus help conceive of novel modes of resistance.

The Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party engaged in a counterinsurgency war for nearly four decades. Over this period, Diyarbakir, the de facto capital of Greater Kurdistan, was a site of sieges and ceasefires, welfare and humanitarian relief, NGO interventions and decolonial resistance-the complementary, intertwined processes of low-intensity war. War turned urban slums into high-security frontiers and transactional hubs for policy design, and settled deep into embodied knowledges and environments. Through committed and engaged ethnography, Umut Yildirim reveals how destruction and displacement became structures of extraction, by which the Turkish state subjugated the Kurdish population into an object to be intervened in, traded, and contained. She also tracks Kurdish efforts to reassert their own stories of war through fact-building, welfare and compensation, women's wellbeing, acts of solidarity, and environmental politics. What we see is a constant dance between war and peace, movement building and its containment, forced displacement and its rehabilitation, memory and its transmutations, environmental damage and its reconstruction. Extractive States offers compelling example of how low-intensity war transforms everyday needs, embodied knowledges, and uprooted populations into securitized knowledge-and how everyday sites of perseverance can reveal such extraction, and thus help conceive of novel modes of resistance.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2.0, Universität Paderborn (Kulturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Leben bei Hofe im 17. Jahrhundert ( Frühe Neuzeit), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover und den universellen Denker Leibniz verbanden ein gemeinsames Interesse an Philosophie, Mathematik und Wissenschaft, und ihre Korrespondenz reichte von politischen bis hin zu persönlichen Angelegenheiten. Der Brief von Sophie an Leibniz vom 21. Dezember 1706 gewährt einen persönlichen Einblick in die politischen Beziehungen zwischen den Königshäusern Europas. Aus der Perspektive einer adeligen Frau werden darin sowohl die Sicht auf die männlichen Akteure im Umfeld von Sophie als auch ihr eigenes Selbstverständnis offenbart. Dieser Briefwechsel spiegelt somit nicht nur die individuellen Interessen und Vorlieben der beiden wider, sondern auch die politische und geopolitische Landschaft, in der sie lebten. Als Kurfürstin war Sophie in eine männlich dominierte politische Umgebung eingebunden, in der Männer die Hauptrollen spielten. Ihre Sichtweise als Frau ermöglicht es, einen Einblick auf die Männer in ihrem Umfeld zu gewinnen und deren Einfluss auf die politischen Beziehungen und Entscheidungen zu verstehen.In der Frühen Neuzeit spielten die europäischen Königshäuser eine zentrale Rolle in Politik und Gesellschaft. Im Zentrum des Königreichs Hannover, genauer am Hof von Hannover, lebte im 17. Jahrhundert Sophie von Hannover. Sie war nicht nur eine bekannte Persönlichkeit an diesem Hof, sondern auch am Kurfürstentum Braunschweig-Lüneburg sowie dem Herzogtum Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Denn sie wurde im Jahre 1658 durch ihre Hochzeit mit dem Herzog Ernst August zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg zur Herzogin und Kurfürstin von Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Dieser erlangte 1692 durch Kaiser Leopold I. die neunte Kurwürde. Dieser angesehene Titel beinhaltete auch die Befugnis zum Tragen des herzoglichen Banners. Die Verbindung zwischen Hannover und Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel war in dieser Zeit von großer Bedeutung für die politischen Beziehungen im Norden Deutschlands und die Beziehung zwischen diesen Gebieten wurde noch zusätzlich durch die Kurwürde und den Erzbanner verstärkt, der Herzog Ernst August und Sophie von Hannover verliehen wurde.Ein näherer und persönlicher Einblick in die politischen Beziehungen zwischen den Königshäusern in Europa kann durch den Briefwechsel zwischen Sophie und dem Mathematiker und Philosophen Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz veranschaulicht werden.