Kurds in Dark Times (eBook)

New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey

Ayça Alemdaroglu, Fatma Müge Göçek (Herausgeber)

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2023
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
9780815655640 (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 Göçek’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.

Autor

Ayça Alemdaroglu is a research scholar and associate director of the Program on Turkey at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.

Fatma Müge Göçek is professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Michigan.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Co-Autor: Metin Atmaca, Janet Klein, Baris Ünlü, Michael Ferguson, Gullistan Yarkin, Deniz Duruiz, Sefika Kumral, Ali Keles, Delal Aydin, Amy Bartholomew, Rusen Firat Güllüoglu, Emine Rezzan Karaman, Hazal Atay, Nisa Göksel
• Nachwort: Hamit Bozarslan
• Zusatzinfo: 10 black and white
• Verlagsort: Syracuse
• 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: Abdullah Öcalan • academic freedom • Adolf Eichmann • Authoritarian regime • Bureaucratic rationalization • Censorship • Diaspora • Displacement • ethnic minority • Ethnic politics • Gender equality • Hannah Arendt • Historical Overview • Human Rights Violations • Justice and Development Party (AKP) • Kurdish Identity • Kurdish Peace Process • Kurdish Politics • Kurdish Studies • Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) • Kurds • Middle East studies • Migration • military campaign • Nationalism • Nazi Germany • Peace Petition • Persecution of academics • Political dissent • Political Mobilization • Political parties • Propaganda • Repression • Social Theory • Southeastern Turkey • State Violence • totalitarian regimes • transnational solidarity • Turkish Studies • Violence • Women's and Gender Studies • Women's mobilization
• ISBN-13: 9780815655640 / 9780815655640