Reading the Paratexts of the Cyprus Conflict Policy, Science, and the pursuit of 'Objectivity'
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Abstract
This article addresses the way in which ‘the Cyprus conflict’ post-1974 has been constructed in studies that straddle the academic/political divide. Since their inception, analyses of the Cyprus conflict have striven to produce accounts that are insightful, impartial, yet at the same time engaged. The article focuses on authors who have had an impact on wider Greek-Cypriot public perceptions beyond academia and analyses their treatment of impartiality and engagement. What such works have in common, the article suggests, is the fact that they attempt to navigate the space between political analysis and political involvement, and therefore, the tension between impartiality and engagement is of primary importance in the interpretation of the discourse each deals with. Genette’s concept of ‘paratexts’ is used to argue that strategies of managing the tension between impartiality and engagement as well as further tensions arising from it are evident in paratextual material, emphasising what perhaps might not be directly stressed in the text.
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Keywords
textual analysis, the politics of objectivity, epistemology, Cyprus conflict, paratext, paraliterature
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Anderson, B. (1991) Imagined Communities. London, Verso.
Angastiniotis, T. (2004) Voice of Blood. Documentary, Cyprus.
Angastiniotis, T. (2005) Trapped in the Green Line: “The Story Behind the Documentary Voice of Blood”. Nicosia, Rustem Bookshop and Publishing Ltd.
Argyrou, V. (1999) ‘Sameness and the Ethnological Will to Meaning’, Current Anthropology, Vol. 40, pp. 29-41.
Attalides, M. (1979) Cyprus, Nationalism and International Politics. London, Macmillan Press.
Attalides, M. (2003) Cyprus: Nationalism and International Politics. Mannheim and Möhnesee, Bibliopolis.
Barthes, R. (1999 [1953]) Writing Degree Zero. New York, Hill and Wang.
Bhabha, H. (1994) The Location of Culture. London, Routledge.
Boote, B.N. and Beile, P. (2005) ‘Scholars before Researchers: On the Centrality of the Dissertation Literature Review in Research Preparation’, Educational Researcher, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 3-15.
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Demetriou, O. (2005) The EU and the Cyprus Conflict: Discourses on the ‘Border’, the ‘Conflict’ and the ‘EU’. EUBORDERCONF Working Paper Series. Birmingham, University of Birmingham.
Diez, T. (ed). (2002) The European Union and the Cyprus Conflict: Modern Conflict, Postmodern Union. Manchester, Manchester University Press.
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Genette, G. (1997 [1987]) Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Gibbons, H.S. (1997) The Genocide Files. London, Charles Bravos.
Gupta, A. and Ferguson, J. (1991) ‘Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference’, Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 6-23.
Hadjipavlou-Trigeorgis, M. and Trigeorgis, L. (1993) ‘Cyprus: An Evolutionary Approach to Conflict Resolution’, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 340-360.
Hanks, W.F. (2000) Intertexts: Writings on Language, Utterance, and Context. Oxford, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Hannay, D. (2005) Cyprus: The Search for a Solution. London, IB Tauris.
Hastrup, K. (1993) ‘Native Anthropology: A Contradiction in Terms?’, Folk, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 147-161.
Hitchens, C. (1984) Cyprus. London, Quartet Books.
Hitchens, C. (1989) Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger. New York, Noonday Press.
Hitchens, C. (1997) Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottoman to Kissinger. London, Verso.
Hitchens, C. (2000) Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. London, Verso.
Hitchens, C. (2002) The Trial of Henry Kissinger. London, Verso.
Karageorghis, V. (1982) Cyprus from the Stone Age to the Romans. London, Thames and Hudson.
Kızılyürek, N. (1988) Pafialar Papazlar [Pashas, Priests]: Istanbul Graphics.
Kızılyürek, N. (1990) Ολική Κύπρος. Nicosia, Kasoulides Printing House.
Kızılyürek, N. (2002) Milliyetçilik Kıskancında Kıbrıs [Cyprus in the Claws of Nationalism]. İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları.
Kristeva, J. (1980) Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. New York, Columbia University Press.
Kyriakides, S. (1968) Cyprus: Constitutionalism and Crisis Government. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Markides, K.C. (1977) The Rise and Fall of the Cyprus Republic. New Haven, Yale University Press.
Maxwell, J.A. (2006) ‘Literature Reviews of, and for, Educational Research: A Commentary on Boote and Beile’s “Scholars before Researchers”’, Educational Researcher, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 28-31.
Narayan, K. (1993) ‘How Native is a “Native” Anthropologist?’, American Anthropologist, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 671-686.
Necatigil, Z.M. (1993) The Cyprus Question and the Turkish Position in International Law. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
O’Malley, B. and Craig, I. (1999) The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage, and the Turkish Invasion. London, IB Tauris.
Ortaylı, I. (2007) On the History of Cyprus. Keynote speech at the 6th International Congress on Cyprus Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University. Famagusta, 24 October.
Papadakis, Y. (2005) Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide. London, IB Tauris.
Parker, J.S.F. (1980) Review of ‘Cyprus: Nationalism and International Politics’, International Affairs, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 528-529.
Ramm, C. (2006) ‘Assessing Transnational Re-Negotiation in the Post-1974 Turkish Cypriot Community: “Cyprus Donkeys”, “Black Beards” and the “EU Carrot”’, South East European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 523-542.
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Stephens, R.H. (1966) Cyprus: A Place of Arms. London, Pall Mall Press.
Volkan, V.D. (1979) Cyprus - War and Adaptation: A Psychoanalytic History of Two Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia.
Volkan, V. D. (2008) An Addition to the Turkish Translation of Dr Volkan’s Cyprus: War and Adaptation, 2008. Paper available at [http://www.austenriggs.org/uploads/
basicContentWidget/1994/ KIBRISenglishvdvdd.pdf], accessed 12 May 2008.
Yennaris, C. (2004) From the East: Conflict and Partition in Cyprus. London, Elliot and Thompson.
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