Extractive States: War and Resistance in Turkey's Kurdish Heartland

The Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party engaged in a counterinsurgency war for nearly four decades. Over this period, Diyarbakır, the de facto capital of Greater Kurdistan, was a site of sieges and ceasefires, welfare and humanitarian relief, NGO interventions and decolonial resistance—the complementary, intertwined processes of low-intensity war. War turned urban slums into high-security frontiers and transactional hubs for policy design, and settled deep into embodied knowledge...