Yıldız, Ceylan Begum ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1912-7525 (2025) State Violence and Legal Accountability: The Wait for Justice. Glass House . Routledge - Taylor and Francis Group, London. ISBN 978-1032690070 (doi:10.4324/9781032690070)

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Abstract

The book inquires into the state and its violent performances from a critical legal perspective. It offers an analysis of state violence and its legal address by focusing on the ghosts, fetishes, and fantasies that surround the concept of the state and its violent performances; while asking how the meanings and assumptions of the state and its violence reflect on political demands and legal processes of accountability? To do so, the book traces the political and legal aftermath of the police killing of Berkin Elvan, a 14-year-old boy, during the nationwide protests of the summer of 2013 in Turkey.

The book offers a fresh perspective to the study of state violence by demystifying the state and its violent power. It will appeal to scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines including law, criminology, politics, sociology, and political and legal philosophy.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	state violence, Police violence, state violence trials, protests, Gezi protests, Turkey, Justice, performativity, subjectivity, hauntology, Critical Legal Theory, accountability
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) K Law > K Law (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Law & Criminology (LAC) Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2025 10:33
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/49955

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