Papers by Melike Batgıray Abboud
Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice, Sep 1, 2024
Law lay at the heart of the European imperial enterprise, and criminal justice was at the core of... more Law lay at the heart of the European imperial enterprise, and criminal justice was at the core of law. Even more than other areas of law, criminal law – with its sanctions of corporal punishment, imprisonment and death – was deeply political. Criminal law was a key coercive instrument in the dispossession and subjugation of the colonized, a disciplinary tool of social control used to ‘civilize’ subject populations and eradicate ‘primitive’ cultural practices like sati or witchcraft ordeals.
However, it also became a tool of resistance for anti-colonial actors to challenge the violence of colonialism itself, and to resolve disputes between the colonized themselves. Colonial criminal laws were based on European criminal
codes, exported and commonly adapted to imperial territories. Although they varied in their metropolitan inheritances, they shared characteristics that defined their coloniality: colonial criminal laws were imposed by an occupying foreign minority on a majority colonized population that was ascribed a separate legal and political status.
That division overwhelmingly followed racial lines: white, European metropolitan ‘citizens’ were legally categorized apart from colonial, global majority ‘subjects’ (Mamdani [1996]).
This thesis aims to analyze the fedayee practice of disguise in the context of violence
between ... more This thesis aims to analyze the fedayee practice of disguise in the context of violence
between the years of 1890 and 1910 in the Northeast parts of the Ottoman Empire. It
mainly focuses on the practice’s itself and the reason behind it. Making use of
photographs, this thesis also examines the politics of clothing and self-representation.
At this juncture, objects in photographs that were intentionally placed fallacious
and delusive are examined to clarify possible fedayee clothes which are also
analyzed. In order to make sense of the penchant of Armenian fedayees for disguise,
this thesis also explores the complexity of Kurdish, Circassian, Georgian, Laz
clothing through photographic evidence.
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Papers by Melike Batgıray Abboud
However, it also became a tool of resistance for anti-colonial actors to challenge the violence of colonialism itself, and to resolve disputes between the colonized themselves. Colonial criminal laws were based on European criminal
codes, exported and commonly adapted to imperial territories. Although they varied in their metropolitan inheritances, they shared characteristics that defined their coloniality: colonial criminal laws were imposed by an occupying foreign minority on a majority colonized population that was ascribed a separate legal and political status.
That division overwhelmingly followed racial lines: white, European metropolitan ‘citizens’ were legally categorized apart from colonial, global majority ‘subjects’ (Mamdani [1996]).
between the years of 1890 and 1910 in the Northeast parts of the Ottoman Empire. It
mainly focuses on the practice’s itself and the reason behind it. Making use of
photographs, this thesis also examines the politics of clothing and self-representation.
At this juncture, objects in photographs that were intentionally placed fallacious
and delusive are examined to clarify possible fedayee clothes which are also
analyzed. In order to make sense of the penchant of Armenian fedayees for disguise,
this thesis also explores the complexity of Kurdish, Circassian, Georgian, Laz
clothing through photographic evidence.
However, it also became a tool of resistance for anti-colonial actors to challenge the violence of colonialism itself, and to resolve disputes between the colonized themselves. Colonial criminal laws were based on European criminal
codes, exported and commonly adapted to imperial territories. Although they varied in their metropolitan inheritances, they shared characteristics that defined their coloniality: colonial criminal laws were imposed by an occupying foreign minority on a majority colonized population that was ascribed a separate legal and political status.
That division overwhelmingly followed racial lines: white, European metropolitan ‘citizens’ were legally categorized apart from colonial, global majority ‘subjects’ (Mamdani [1996]).
between the years of 1890 and 1910 in the Northeast parts of the Ottoman Empire. It
mainly focuses on the practice’s itself and the reason behind it. Making use of
photographs, this thesis also examines the politics of clothing and self-representation.
At this juncture, objects in photographs that were intentionally placed fallacious
and delusive are examined to clarify possible fedayee clothes which are also
analyzed. In order to make sense of the penchant of Armenian fedayees for disguise,
this thesis also explores the complexity of Kurdish, Circassian, Georgian, Laz
clothing through photographic evidence.