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This dissertation analyzes the historical dynamics of the process of demographic engineering that took place in the early years of the Turkish Republic. By focusing on the case of the forced displacement and resettlement of the Alevi Kurds of Dersim between 1937 and 1947, this d…

In my dissertation I analyze the relationships between historical and everyday state-formation and the making and remaking of the people and landscapes of Dersim, produced as the outsiders of state. I focus on three periods: the massacre and the following displacements in Dersim…