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Accepted Paper:

Sovereignty as a palimpsest: Ottoman officialdom as an affective relic in Northern Cyprus  
Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge)

Paper short abstract:

This paper studies today's Turkish-Cypriot identifications with administration and desire for civil service positions as a residue from Cyprus' Ottoman, British, and postcolonial histories, arguing that old forms of sovereignty exert influence in the present in the form of an affective relic.

Paper long abstract:

This paper studies contemporary Turkish-Cypriot identifications with administration and desire for positions in the civil service as a residue from Cyprus' past Ottoman and British histories. Introducing the concept of 'sovereignty as a palimpsest', I argue that old forms of sovereignty exert influence in the present in the form of an affective relic.

Panel W027
Anthropological perspectives on biopolitics and sovereignty in Europe and the world
  Session 1