| Title | Eco-Redaction as Method |
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| Contributor | Umut Yıldırım(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0466.1.10 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/redacted-writing-in-the-negative-space-of-the-state/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Umut Yıldırım |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2024-10-27 |
| Long abstract | How can the Armenian genocide be considered in terms of its ecological roots and remnants? Umut Yıldırım explores the nonhuman flora and fauna indigenous to the banks of the Tigris River in Upper Mesopotamia — in particular, centenarian mulberry trees — as resistant roots that register the evidentiary ecologies of the Armenian genocide through the Turkish state’s denialist present and its ongoing war against the Kurds. |
| Page range | pp. 151–160 |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Umut Yıldırım is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland. Her research is available in platforms such as Current Anthropology (2021, 2024) and Anthropological Theory (2019). She also edited the book volume, War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East (ICI Berlin Press, 2023). Previously, she held research fellowships in various academic institutions in the US and Germany; worked as an independent researcher in Palermo, Sicily; and taught political anthropology at various universities in Istanbul, Turkey. When she’s not tending to her academic duties, she’s busy ███████████████.