par Schafers, Marlène
Référence Social anthropology, 24, 2, page (228-242)
Publication Publié, 2016-05
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : This article investigates how ruined materialities are implicated in projects of governance by affecting people's abilities to engage with the future. Based on ethnographic material from the Kurdish-inhabited city of Van (Turkey), which was heavily damaged by two earthquakes in 2011, I analyse Turkish state authorities' mobilisation of expertise regarding Van's ruined built environment as a form of techno-political governance. Yet as ruins' material properties continuously exceeded attempts at governing them, they created a particular structure of risk, thereby contributing to the formation of political subjects feeling themselves to be at the constant peril of both natural and political disaster.