The Kurdish Question: Identity, Representation and the Struggle for Self- Determination

The Kurdish Question: Identity, Representation and the Struggle for Self- Determination
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Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9789385714085
ISBN-13 : 9385714082
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Synopsis The Kurdish Question: Identity, Representation and the Struggle for Self- Determination by :

The book examines several models which have been advocated for a workable and acceptable solution to the Kurdish problem which would be absolutely necessary for stability in the West Asian region. The book evaluates how the more than two-decade long experience of Kurdish self-rule in a democratic framework in Iraqi Kurdistan affects the debate over the other Kurdish regions in West Asia. With Turkey’s European Union accession process contributing to the opening of the political space to ethno-nationalism, there is a need for a non-military solution to the Kurdish issue. The book analyses the role of Kurdish diaspora which plays a significant part in placing the Kurdish question on the European political agenda. It also examines the role of the Kurds in the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the changing geopolitics in the region. Now, the Kurds maintain the strongest platform in battling against the ISIS terrorists.

The Kurdish Question

The Kurdish Question
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9383649364
ISBN-13 : 9789383649365
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Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1949–1992

Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1949–1992
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9783319977287
ISBN-13 : 3319977288
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Synopsis Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1949–1992 by : Brittany Lehman

This book examines the right to education for migrant children in Europe between 1949 and 1992. Using West Germany as a case study to explore European trends, the book analyzes how the Council of Europe and European Community’s ideological goals were implemented for specific national groups. The book starts with education for displaced persons and exiles in the 1950s, then compares schooling for Italian, Greek, and Turkish labor migrants, then circles back to asylum seekers and returning ethnic Germans. For each group, the state entries involved tried to balance equal education opportunities with the right to personhood, an effort which became particularly convoluted due to implicit biases. When the European Union was founded in 1993, children’s access to education depended on a complicated mix of legal status and perception of cultural compatibility. Despite claims that all children should have equal opportunities, children’s access was limited by citizenship and ethnic identity.

Mapping Kurdistan

Mapping Kurdistan
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781108601689
ISBN-13 : 1108601685
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Mapping Kurdistan by : Zeynep N. Kaya

Since the early twentieth-century, Kurds have challenged the borders and national identities of the states they inhabit. Nowhere is this more evident than in their promotion of the 'Map of Greater Kurdistan', an ideal of a unified Kurdish homeland in an ethnically and geographically complex region. This powerful image is embedded in the consciousness of the Kurdish people, both within the region and, perhaps even more strongly, in the diaspora. Addressing the lack of rigorous research and analysis of Kurdish politics from an international perspective, Zeynep Kaya focuses on self-determination, territorial identity and international norms to suggest how these imaginations of homelands have been socially, politically and historically constructed (much like the state territories the Kurds inhabit), as opposed to their perception of being natural, perennial or intrinsic. Adopting a non-political approach to notions of nationhood and territoriality, Mapping Kurdistan is a systematic examination of the international processes that have enabled a wide range of actors to imagine and create the cartographic image of greater Kurdistan that is in use today.

Spaces of Diasporas

Spaces of Diasporas
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Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89083228940
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Synopsis Spaces of Diasporas by : Minoo Alinia

Kurdistan: The Quest for Representation and Self-Determination

Kurdistan: The Quest for Representation and Self-Determination
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Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9789386288875
ISBN-13 : 9386288877
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Kurdistan: The Quest for Representation and Self-Determination by : Mr Lungthuiyang Riamei

Kurdistan, the name given to the Kurds’ historical homeland, is a landlocked region that lies at the crossroads of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. After the fall of Ottoman Empire the Kurdish people were promised independence by the treaty of Sevres in 1920. The Kurds are known as a nation without borders and consider as a stateless people. Aftermath of the Arab Spring in 2010, Kurdistan has witnessed an increase in nationalism and a shift in geo-politics. The book examines the various models which could be acceptable solution to the Kurdish problem in West Asian region. It also evaluates the role of the Kurdish diaspora placing Kurdish issue in the international forum. The Kurdish Peshmerga and YPG militia maintains one of the strongest forces confronting against the ISIS in West Asian region.

The Right to Self-determination

The Right to Self-determination
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Publisher : New York : United Nations
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015027238081
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Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Right to Self-determination by : Aureliu Cristescu

Nationalism and Intra-State Conflicts in the Postcolonial World

Nationalism and Intra-State Conflicts in the Postcolonial World
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 570
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ISBN-10 : 9781498500265
ISBN-13 : 1498500269
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Nationalism and Intra-State Conflicts in the Postcolonial World by : Fonkem Achankeng

This book highlights the complexities of nationalism and the struggles of different groups left unaddressed within the nation-states of a postcolonial world. The central question is what happened to the worldly and radical visions of freedom, liberty, and equality that animated intellectual activists and policy makers from Woodrow Wilson in the 1920s? This book analyzes the outcome of lumping disparate groups of people together under one nation-state and holding them together against the knowledge of the incompatibility theory of plural states. In a world of arbitrarily and colonially mapped sovereign states, groups, and nations with distinctive histories and cultures trapped within the borders of sovereign states want the freedom to decide their own destinies. This book challenges, deconstructs, and decolonizes Western epistemologies related to postcolonial state formation and maintenance. In examining the freedom concept that no human group ought to be determining the independence of other human groups, this book constructs an alternative conceptualization of nations and peoples’ rights in the twenty-first century, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to internal nationalism struggles.

The Kurds in Erdogan's "New" Turkey

The Kurds in Erdogan's
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9781000531374
ISBN-13 : 1000531376
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Kurds in Erdogan's "New" Turkey by : Nikos Christofis

This book focuses on the AKP government since 2002 during which time the state’s approach to the Kurdish Question has undergone several changes. Examining what preceded and followed the failed putsch of 2016, it explains and critiques that situates the Kurdish Question in its broader context. It stands out with the main objective to avoid any ‘policy-oriented bias’ through an interdisciplinary and multi-thematic approach. The volume discusses the state and policies in the Kurdish region of Turkey, as well as counter-hegemonic discourses that seek to reform existing institutions. Some chapters focus on the domestic aspects and gender perspectives of the Kurdish Question in Turkey, which focus has been taken over by recent developments in Syria and the Middle East in general. Other chapters include a range of new aspects of Turkish society and politics, and the international aspects of Ankara’s policies and its implications not only inside Turkey but also internationally. Taking both domestic and foreign policy aspects into account, the book offers a set of innovative explanations for the state of crisis in Turkey and a solid basis for thinking about the likely path forward. Scholars, researchers and post-graduates, interested in political theory, Kurdish and Middle East politics will find this book invaluable.

The Kurdish Women's Movement

The Kurdish Women's Movement
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Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0745341934
ISBN-13 : 9780745341934
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Kurdish Women's Movement by : Dilar Dirik

The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of the most exciting revolutionary experiment in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle, most recently in the fight against ISIS, Rojava embodies a radical commitment to ecology, democracy and gender equality. But while striking images of Kurdish women in desert fatigues proliferate, a true understanding of the women's movement remains elusive.Taking apart the superficial and Orientalist frameworks that dominate, Dilar Dirik offers instead an empirically rich account of the women's movement in Kurdistan. Drawing on original research and ethnographic fieldwork, she surveys the movement's historical origins, ideological evolution, and political practice over the past forty years. Going beyond abstract ideas, Dirik locates the movement's culture and ideology in its concrete work for women's liberation and radical democracy.Taking the reader from the guerrilla mountains to radical women's academies and self-organised refugee camps, the book invites women around the world to engage with the revolution in Kurdistan, both theoretically and practically, as a vital touchstone in the wider struggle for a militant anti-fascist, anti-capitalist feminist internationalism.