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Author |
: Martin van Bruinessen |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015051714437 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kurdish Ethno-nationalism Versus Nation-building States by : Martin van Bruinessen
Author |
: Ofra Bengio |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2014-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780292763012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0292763018 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kurdish Awakening by : Ofra Bengio
Kurdish Awakening examines key questions related to Kurdish nationalism and identity formation in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. The world’s largest stateless ethnic group, Kurds have steadily grown in importance as a political power in the Middle East, particularly in light of the “Arab Spring.” As a result, Kurdish issues—political, cultural, and historical alike—have emerged as the subject of intense scholarly interest. This book provides fresh ways of understanding the historical and sociopolitical underpinnings of the ongoing Kurdish awakening and its already significant impact on the region. Rather than focusing on one state or angle, this anthology fills a gap in the literature on the Kurds by providing a panoramic view of the Kurdish homeland’s various parts. The volume focuses on aspects of Kurdish nationalism and identity formation not addressed elsewhere, including perspectives on literature, gender, and constitution making. Further, broad thematic essays include a discussion of the historical experiences of the Kurds from the time of their Islamization more than a millennium ago up until the modern era, a comparison of the Kurdish experience with other ethno-national movements, and a treatment of the role of tribalism in modern nation building. This collection is unique in its use of original sources in various languages. The result is an analytically rich portrayal that sheds light on the Kurds’ prospects and the challenges they confront in a region undergoing sweeping upheavals.
Author |
: Mahir A. Aziz |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2011-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857719515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857719513 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kurds of Iraq by : Mahir A. Aziz
Over ninety years since their absorption into the modern Iraqi state, the Kurdish people of Iraq still remain an apparent anomaly in the modern world - a nation without a state. In 'The Kurds of Iraq', Mahir Aziz explores this incongruity, and asks the pertinent questions, who are the Kurds today? What is their relationship to the Iraqi state? How do they perceive themselves and their prospective political future? And in what way are they crucial for the stability of the Iraqi state? In the wake of the Gulf War of 1991 in the face of the Iraqi state, the Kurds endeavoured to create a de facto state and to concretise and stabilise the institutions that would enable this. 'The Kurds of Iraq' thus examines the creation, evolution and development of Kurdish nationalism despite the suppression of its political and cultural manifestations. Through extensive interviews in the field, Aziz assesses the impact of recent history on the complex process of identity formation amongst Kurdish students at three of the nation's leading universities. He provides an in depth examination of students' socio-economic backgrounds, and their thoughts on and experiences of what it means to be Kurdish in the modern Iraqi state, and the impact this has on their perception of their language, culture and religion. Aziz's invaluable and extensive field research furthermore serves as a point of departure for an investigation into the relationship between national identity and historical memory in Iraqi Kurdistan and beyond. He thus analyses wider issues of the intersection and interdependency of national, regional, ethnic, tribal and local identities. He thus constructs an intimate portrait of the Kurds of Iraq, which will provide an important insight for students and researchers of the Middle East and for those interested the important issues of nationalism and ethnic identity in the modern nation state, and the impact these issues have on the stability of Iraq itself.
Author |
: Senem Aslan |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107054608 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107054605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nation Building in Turkey and Morocco by : Senem Aslan
This book compares the relatively peaceful relationship between the Berbers and the Moroccan state with the violent relationship between the Kurds and the Turkish state.
Author |
: Abbas Vali |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015056658076 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism by : Abbas Vali
Author |
: Hanifi Baris |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2021-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781793600011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1793600015 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kurdish Model of Political Community by : Hanifi Baris
The Kurdish Model of Political Community: A Vision of National Liberation Defiant of the Nation-State undertakes a task long due in Kurdish studies: addressing common misunderstandings about and outlining theoretical implications of Kurdish politics. Hanifi Baris develops his arguments with an historical examination and finds apathy towards and a resistance to state-building in Kurdistan. Accordingly, Baris argues, this tendency to establish self-government with distaste to state-building has enabled major Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria to develop a form of political community that constitutes a viable alternative to those based on theocratic, imperial and national sovereignty. Thus, Baris concludes, rather than being a conflict between competing nationalisms, the current Kurdish conflict in Turkey and Syria is between competing visions of political community.
Author |
: Emel Elif Tugdar |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2017-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319537153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319537156 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East by : Emel Elif Tugdar
This edited volume introduces the political, social and economic intra-Kurdish dynamics in the Middle East by comparatively analyzing the main actors, their ideas, and political interests. As an ethnic group and a nation in the making, Kurds are not homogeneous and united but rather the Kurdish Middle East is home to various competing political groups, leaderships, ideologies, and interests. Although many existing studies focus on the Kurds and their relations with the nation-states that they populate, few studies analyze the Kurdish Middle East within its own debates, conflicts and interests from a comparative perspective across Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. This book analyzes the intra-Kurdish dynamics with historically-grounded, theoretically-informed, and conceptually-relevant scholarship that prioritizes comparative politics over international relations.
Author |
: Abbas Vali |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2014-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857720337 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857720333 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kurds and the State in Iran by : Abbas Vali
In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran. The Mahabad Republic, as it became known, was the first time that the Kurds experienced self-rule in the modern era. Although short-lived, the Republic had a formative influence on the subsequent development of Kurdish nationalist movements in Iran and the wider region. Here, Abbas Vali disputes the conventional view that the Kurdish Republic was the result of a Soviet conspiracy to dismember Iran, a side-effect of the Cold War. Instead he emphasizes the diversity of the internal Iranian and Kurdish factors that led to the formation of the Republic, arguing that the Republic represents the culmination of a new and modern Kurdish national identity. This was an identity which emerged in response to the exclusionary effects of the political and discursive processes and practices of the construction of a modern Iranian nation-state and national identity since the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, which often excluded and attempted to override a Kurdish one. Vali contends that this process, largely due to the socio-economic and cultural impact of the rule of Pahlavis, in reality forced the Kurdish people of Iran to form and reinforce their own ethno-linguistic and ethno-national community. The expressions of this separate identity can be traced through the formation and dissolution of Kurdish national parties, such as the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI). 'Kurds and the State in Iran' offers an analysis of the formation and effects of the concepts of the state, the nation, nationalism and ethnic identity, which go beyond current ethnicist and constructivist theories, thus making it essential reading for anyone interested in the Kurds or the development of national and state identities in the Middle East.
Author |
: Hakan Ozoglu |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2012-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780791485569 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0791485560 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State by : Hakan Ozoglu
Kurdish nationalism remains one of the most critical and explosive problems of the Middle East. Despite its importance, the topic remains on the margins of Middle East Studies. Bringing the study of Kurdish nationalism into the mainstream of Middle East scholarship, Hakan Özogálu examines the issue in the context of the Ottoman Empire. Using a wealth of primary sources, including Ottoman and British archives, Ottoman Parliamentary minutes, memoirs, and interviews, he focuses on revealing the social, political, and historical forces behind the emergence and development of Kurdish nationalism. Contrary to the assumption that nationalist movements contribute to the collapse of empires, the book argues that Kurdish leaders remained loyal to the Ottoman state, and only after it became certain that the empire would not recover did Kurdish nationalism emerge and clash with the Kemalist brand of Turkish nationalism.
Author |
: Durukan Kuzu |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2018-03-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108284950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108284957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Multiculturalism in Turkey by : Durukan Kuzu
Over the past couple of decades, there have been many efforts to seek a solution to the often violent situation in which Kurdish citizens of Turkey find themselves. These efforts have included a gradual programme of political recognition and multiculturalism. Here, Durukan Kuzu examines the case of Kurdish citizens in Turkey through the lens of the global debate on multiculturalism, exploring the limitations of these policies. He thereby challenges the conventional thinking about national minorities and their autonomy, and offers a scientifically grounded comparative framework for the study of multiculturalism. Through comparison of the situation of Kurds in Turkey with that of other national minorities - such as the Flemish in Belgium, Québécois in Canada, Corsicans in France, and Muslims in Greece - the reader is invited to question in what forms multiculturalism can work for different national minorities. A bottom-up approach is used to offer a fresh insight into the Kurdish community and to highlight conflicting views about which form the politics of recognition could take.