The Kurds in Erdoğan’s Turkey
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5920-4 (ISBN)
This book examines the circumstances of the Kurds in 21st century Turkey, under the hegemony of the AKP government. After decades of denial, oppression and conflict, Kurds now assert a more confident presence in Turkey’s politics – but does increasing visibility mean a rejection of Turkey? Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and Diyarbakır, Turkey’s most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book generates new understandings of Kurdish identity and political aspirations. Highlighting elements of Kurdish identity including Newroz, the Kurdish language, connections to religion, landscape and cross-border ties, it offers a portrait of Kurdish political life in a Turkey increasingly dominated by its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Within the context of Turkey’s troubled trajectory towards democratisation, it documents Kurdish narratives of oppression and resistance, and enquires how Kurds reconcile their distinct ethnic identity and citizenship in modern Turkey.
William Gourlay teaches politics and Middle East history at Monash University and is Research Associate at the Middle East Studies Forum at Deakin University. He has published analysis, book reviews, policy briefs and peer-reviewed research in a range of online forums and international media, including in the key journals Middle East Critique, Ethnopolitics, The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Third World Quarterly and Ethnic & Racial Studies.
Introduction: Eruption in Diyarbakır
Identity, ethnicity, politics: from Kemalism to ‘New Turkey’Conceiving Turkishness in the Republic of TurkeyKurdishness: long suppressed nationhood, or otherwiseCountenancing diversity: re-imagining national identityIdentity and difference in flux: the Gezi Park protestsInstituting ‘Yeni Türkiye’
Talking to Kurds about ‘Identity’Entering ‘the field’An Australian in Kurdish neighbourhoodsConceiving ‘identity’Being different, or how to spot a Kurd in Turkey
Demarcating Kurdish cultureLanguage: ‘ana dil’ or ‘zimanê me’Celebrating Newroz, or NevruzResisting managed diversity
The Kurds and Islam: defying hegemony and the ‘caliphate’Kurds & IslamIslam in the Republic of TurkeyThe AKP and Islam in the public sphereShifting Kurdish relationships with IslamKurds as ‘Others’Contesting Islam and asserting difference
Contesting homeland(s): city, soil and landscape‘Toprak’: naming, claiming and relating to the landscapeDiyarbakır: symbolic cityAlternative labelsSpatial contestations: identity and politics
Kurdayetî: Pan-Kurdish sentiment and solidarityKurdayetî: both ‘we’ and ‘us’Crises, cross-border movement and consolidating solidarityKurdayetî confronts ISISVictory over ISIS and its aftermathCross-border currents
Oppression, solidarity, resistanceKurds in Turkey: a History of Oppression?Oppression Catalysing a Collective IdentityBerxwedan Jiyane: ‘Resistance is Life’Maintaining resistance in ‘New Turkey’?
Kurds as citizensCitizenship as obligation, imposition, resignationWeight of circumstances: belonging, friends, relativesParticipating in politics: citizenship made manifestStruggling for democracy?Turning up – again – at the ballot boxThe ‘ideal’: retaining currency?
Conclusion: reconciling ethnic identity, citizenship and the ‘ideal’ in Erdoğan’s Turkey?Whither the Kurds?
Bibiliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.06.2022 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-5920-X / 147445920X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-5920-4 / 9781474459204 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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