This paper explores counterinsurgency strategies of the Turkish state during the 1990s and how they affected people’s experience of time and space in Yüksekova, a Kurdish border town in the south-eastern tip of Turkey. The paper takes up the perspective of children to think about how forcing people to wait indefinitely enables new forms of population and territorial control. Drawing on autobiographical and ethnographic accounts, the paper demonstrates how the Turkish state establishes and maintains its sovereignty in Kurdish borderlands by constricting space, forcing a different rhythm onto the practices of everyday life and instilling ordinary existence with a sense of uncertainty.

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宵禁“直至另行通知”：土耳其库尔德边境城镇的主权等待和空间化

本文探讨了 1990 年代土耳其政府的反叛乱战略，以及这些战略如何影响了土耳其东南端库尔德边境城镇 Yüksekova 的人们的时空体验。这篇论文从儿童的角度思考如何强迫人们无限期地等待能够实现新形式的人口和领土控制。该论文利用自传和民族志的记载，展示了土耳其国家如何通过压缩空间、将不同的节奏强加于日常生活实践以及向普通生活灌输不确定感来建立和维护其在库尔德边境地区的主权。