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The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey : balancing identity, resistance and citizenship / William Gourlay.
LIBRA DR435.K87 G68 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gourlay, William, author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh studies on modern Turkey
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kurds--Turkey.
- Kurds.
- Politics and government.
- Kurds--Political activity.
- Social conditions.
- Ethnicity.
- Turkey.
- Kurds--Turkey--Ethnic identity.
- Kurds--Turkey--Social conditions.
- Kurds--Political activity--Turkey.
- Turkey--Politics and government--21st century.
- Collective memory.
- Ethnic relations.
- Nationalism.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 270 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and Diyarbakır, Turkey's most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book documents Kurdish narratives of oppression and resistance, and enquires how Kurds reconcile their distinct ethnic identity and citizenship in modern Turkey.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Identity, ethnicity, politics: from Kemalism to `New Turkey'
- 2. Talking to Kurds about `Identity'
- 3. Demarcating Kurdish culture
- 4. The Kurds and Islam: defying hegemony and the `caliphate'
- 5. Contesting homeland(s): city, soil and landscape
- 6. Kurdayeti: Pan-Kurdish sentiment and solidarity
- 7. Oppression, solidarity, resistance
- 8. Kurds as citizens.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474459198
- 1474459196
- OCLC:
- 1180227294
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