Books by Rebecca Bryant

Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay develop the concept of the aporetic state to describe an entity that acts like a state even as nonrecognition renders it unrealizable. They argue that only by rethinking the de facto state as a realm of practice will we be able to understand the longevity of such states and what it means to live in them.

Arguing that two conflicting styles of nationalist imagination led to the violent rending of Cyprus in 1974 and sustained that division over decades, Rebecca Bryant demonstrates how Muslims and Christians were transformed into Turks and Greeks - and what it meant when they were.