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Winner of the 2021 annual book award of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS).

David Leupolds exceptional book explores the complex and contested Turkish, Kurdish, and Armenian visions of homeland in the greater Van region of contemporary Turkey. Through a layered analysis of collective violence, constructed national histories, and imagined homelands, Embattled Dreamlands demonstrates how violence and population displacement in the early 1900s produced homeland imaginaries and mutually exclusive interpretations of the past. Based on five years of ethnographic and historical research, Leupolds rich tapestry of Ottoman and Soviet history, imagined geographies, and national narratives makes unique theoretical contributions to studies of collective memory and provides an insightful and impartial assessment of sectarian and national identities. The book invites us to evaluate critically and carefully our past and its impact on our contemporary imagined worlds.

Embattled Dreamlands explores the complex relationship between competing national myths, imagined boundaries and local memories in the threefold-contested geography referred to as Eastern Turkey, Western Armenia or Northern Kurdistan.

Spatially rooted in the shatter zone of the post-Ottoman and post-Soviet space, it sheds light on the multi-layered memory landscape of the Lake Van region in Southeastern Turkey, where collective violence stretches back from the Armenian Genocide to the Kurdish conflict of today. Based on his fieldwork in Turkey and Armenia, the author examines how states work to construct and monopolize collective memory by narrating, silencing, mapping and performing the past, and how these narratives might help to contribute and resolve present-day conflicts.

By looking at how national discourses are constructed and asking hard questions about why nations are imagined as exclusive and hostile to others, Embattled Dreamlands provides a unique insight into the development of national identity which will provide a great resource to students and researchers in sociology and history alike.

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Whether it is the politics of memory or the histoire croise of Anatolia or deep - photo 1
Whether it is the politics of memory or the histoire croise of Anatolia or deep dives into discourses, David Leupold has something important to tell us that transcends the embattled dreamlands that are at the center of this extraordinary book.
From the foreword by Ronald G. Suny, the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan
A model of interdisciplinary scholarship that helps us understand how the intricacies of statecraft can be deployed to direct and transform historical thinking. Leupold brings a rich past back to life in this multi-layered (and impressively polyglot) study.
Bruce Grant, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, New York University
Embattled Dreamlands
Embattled Dreamlands explores the complex relationship between competing national myths, imagined boundaries and local memories in the threefold-contested geography referred to as Eastern Turkey, Western Armenia or Northern Kurdistan.
Spatially rooted in the shatter zone of the post-Ottoman and post-Soviet space, it sheds light on the multi-layered memory landscape of the Lake Van region in Southeastern Turkey, where collective violence stretches back from the Armenian Genocide to the Kurdish conflict of today. Based on his fieldwork in Turkey and Armenia, the author examines how states work to construct and monopolize collective memory by narrating, silencing, mapping and performing the past, and how these narratives might help to contribute to and resolve present-day conflicts.
By looking at how national discourses are constructed and asking hard questions about why nations are imagined as exclusive and hostile to others, Embattled Dreamlands provides a unique insight into the development of national identity which will provide a great resource for students and researchers in sociology and history alike.
David Leupold is a 20182019 Manoogian post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He focuses his research on politics of memory in the post-Ottoman and post-Soviet space.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Leupold, David, author.
Title: Embattled dreamlands/David Leupold.
Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019052662 (print) | LCCN 2019052663 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367361457 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367361440 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429344152 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Ethnic conflictTurkey, Eastern. | Ethnic groupsTurkey, Eastern. | ArmeniansTurkey, Eastern. | KurdsTurkey, Eastern. | TurksTurkey, Eastern. | Collective memoryTurkey, Eastern. | NationalismTurkey, EasternHistory. | Turkey, EasternEthnic relations. | Turkey, EasternHistory.
Classification: LCC DS51.E27 L48 2020 (print) | LCC DS51.E27 (ebook) | DDC 305.800956dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019052662
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019052663
ISBN: 978-0-367-36145-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-36144-0 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-34415-2 (ebk)
Visit the eResources: www.routledge.com/9780367361440
For the People
Of a War-torn Cradle of Civilizations
My innermost gratitude is due to my mentor, friend and comrade Ronald Grigor Suny, whose spirited and up-right commitment to the cause of Armenian-Turkish reconciliation inspired me throughout my work. I further owe my gratitude to Klaus Eder, who first introduced me to the field of memory studies, and Silvia von Steinsdorff for their cordial encouragement, critical feedbacks and dedicated support. I further recognize that without the doctoral funding by the Hansen foundation and Erasmus Mundus MID as well as the post-doctoral funding through the Armenian Studies Program of the University of Michigan the realization of this project would not have been possible in the first place. During my Erasmus Mundus field work mobility in Armenia in 20142015, Asya Hayrapetyan, Arevik Ohanyan and the staff of Eurasia International University kindly hosted me at their institution.
Though we parted company, I remember with gratitude my year-long companion Arpenik Atabekyan for her patience, thought-provoking ideas and indispensable assistance as a transliterator of my Armenian interviews. I further thank Avetis Keshishyan, Lusine Kharatyan, Hasmik Knazyan, Smbat Hakobyan and Lilit Poghosyan for sharing their expertise as anthropologists and ethnographers and their tremendous help in facilitating my access to the field in Armenia and Turkey. I want to express special thanks to Akn Arslan, my generous host in Van and loyal companion on my field work in the Hakkari region, Manuk Avedikyan, who accompanied me during my field work in Armenia and Tamar Khutsishvili, who supported me during my field work in Tbilisi.
The intellectual and thought-provoking exchange with fellow researchers such as Heiko Conrad, Lilit Dabagian, Martin Joormann, Nazife Kosukolu, Arakel Minassian, Florian Mhlfried, Mehmet Polatel, Anoush Tamar Suni and Diana Yayloyan fills me with hope that we will witness the dawn of a new academic environment of critical-minded young researchers based on comradeship and mutual support rather than fierce competition and individual ambition. I finally thank Elke Laschka, my primary school teacher and first mentor, as well as my mother Claudia, my father Jrgen, my grandmother Evelyne and my grandfather Herbert for their life-long support.
In the last decade or two something exciting, even fundamentally paradigm-changing, has been happening in Ottoman, post-Ottoman, and modern Turkish studies. In fields where the narrowness and tendentiousness of nationalism have marred serious scholarship, courageous scholars, both in Turkey and outside, have defied the restrictions of governments and old understandings to break free of histories limited by emphasis on one people or another. Whether through the lens of empire, of entangled histories, or historical sociologies inherently transnational and comparative, social scientists have asserted that earlier triumphant and tragic stories of the past cannot be told in isolation from the complex interactions of imperial settings, state policies of assimilation and discrimination, and cultural and geographic proximity. Shared territory, common and disparate cultural understandings, and intersecting historical experiences have demonstrated that the histories of Armenians, Kurds, Turks, and others are intimately intertwined and inseparable from the actions and fates of the others. The fraught topography of Anatolia, particularly its eastern regions, the scene of repeated violence and displacement, demands storytellers with vision that reaches beyond the fettered gaze of nationalists and myth-making governments.
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