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The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey : From Protest to Resistance.
This book provides an interpretive and critical analysis of Kurdish identity, nationalism and national movement in Turkey since the 1960s. By raising issues and questions relating to Kurdish political identity and highlighting the ideological specificity, diversity and the transformation of Kurdish...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: the Kurdish question in Turkey; 1. Deconstructing Kurdish identity and nationalism in academic discourses; Introduction; The Kurds and the Kurdish question in Turkey: conflict analysis and political history literature; The Kurdish movement and the PKK as a case study; Conclusion; 2. Understanding Kurdish identity and nationalism in Turkey; Discourse theoretical account of identity formation.
- Understanding Kurdish nationalist discourse: hegemony, myth and radical democracyMethodology and sources; 3. The organic intellectuals and the re-emergence of Kurdish political activism in the 1960s; Introduction; Kurdish organic intellectuals and the public discussion of the 'Eastern question; Organised dissent and mass protest: the TKDP, the TİP and the 'meetings of the East'; Conclusion; 4. The emergence of the Kurdish socialist movement; Introduction; The signs of separation: establishment of the DDKO; The fragmentation of the Kurdish socialist movement; Conclusion.
- 5. The Kurdish national liberation discourseIntroduction; Accounting for Kurdistan's fragmentation: 'colonialism 'and 'feudalism'; Contestation and the PKK's hegemony; Conclusion; 6. 'Becoming a Kurd': the 'national liberation' war and mass mobilisation; Introduction; Fighting for Kurdistan: the 'war of liberation' and mass mobilisation; The sedimentation of the PKK's discourse during the 1980s and 1990s; Conclusion; 7. Dislocations and the PKK's turn to democrac (1992-present); Introduction; Dislocations and the emergence of democratic discourse as the alternative (1992-1999).
- The PKK's democratic discourse (1999-present)Conclusion; 8. Contesting democracy and pluralism: the pro-Kurdish political parties in Turkey; Introduction; Searching for 'inclusion' and 'recognition': the HEP and the emergence of Kurdish parliamentary opposition (1990-1994); Rebuilding the pro-Kurdish democracy movement; Conclusion; Conclusion: democracy, pluralism and Kurdish subjectivity in (post)national Turkey; Summary of findings: beyond essentialism; Opportunities, difficulties and challenges for the Kurdish national movement in Turkey; Notes; Bibliography; Index.