Kurds in Dark Times (eBook)

New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey

Ayca Alemdaroglu, Fatma Muge Gocek (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-5564-0 (ISBN)

Infos

With an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. Kurds constitute about 20 percent of Turkey, the largest Kurdish population in the region. The history of the Kurds in Turkey is marked by state violence against them and decades of conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdish fighters. Although the continuous struggle of the Kurdish people is well known, and the political actors involved in the conflict have received much attention, an increasing wave of scholarship is being written from the vantage point of the Kurds themselves.Alemdaroglu and Gocek's volume develops a fresh approach by moving away from top-down Turkish nationalist macroanalyses to a microanalysis of how Kurds and Kurdistan as historical and ethnic categories were constructed from the bottom up. Contributors look beyond the politics of state actors to examine how Kurdish workers, women, youth, and political prisoners experience and resist marginalization, exclusion, and violence. Kurds in Dark Times opens an essential window into the lives of Kurds by generating meaningful insights into the formal and informal ways of negotiating their power and place in Turkey; and therefore, it provides crucial perspectives for any endeavor to create peace and reconciliation in the country.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Co-Autor: Emine Rezzan Karaman, Ali Keles, Janet Klein, Sefika Kumral, Baris Unlu, Gullistan Yarkin, Hazal Atay, Metin Atmaca, Delal Aydin, Amy Bartholomew, Deniz Duruiz, Michael Ferguson, Nisa Goksel, Rusen Firat Gulluoglu
• Nachwort: Hamit Bozarslan
• Zusatzinfo: 10 black and white
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Kurdish Studies • Middle East studies • Turkish Studies • Women's and Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8156-5564-9 / 0815655649
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-5564-0 / 9780815655640