The Forgotten Years Of Kurdish Nationalism In Iran

Author : Abbas Vali
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030160692

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The Forgotten Years of Kurdish Nationalism in Iran by Abbas Vali Pdf

This book investigates the forgotten years of Kurdish nationalism in Iran, from the fall of the Kurdish republic to the advent of the Iranian revolution. An original and path-breaking investigation of the period, it sheds light not only on the historical specificity of the phenomenon of nationalism in exile, but also on the political processes and practices defining the development of Kurdish nationalism in the post-revolutionary era. Although nationalist landmarks such as the Kurdish republic in 1946 and the resurgence of the movement in the revolutionary conjuncture of 1978-79 have attracted the attention of historians and social scientists in recent years, little is known about the three decades of Kurdish nationalism in exile between these two events. This analysis draws on contemporary poststructuralist theory to question the concept of the minority in democratic and constitutional theory, arguing that it is an effect of the discursive linkage between sovereign power and the dominant ethnic-linguistic identity in the nation-state. This text will appeal to a wide academic audience ranging from the fields of Kurdish, Iranian and Middle East Studies to ethnicity, nationalism, government, and political science.

Author : Allan Hassaniyan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516430

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Kurdish Politics in Iran by Allan Hassaniyan Pdf

A history of the development of the Kurdish national movement in Iran which reflects on seven decades of the movement from 1947.

Author : S. Behnaz Hosseini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000457575

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Women and Suicide in Iran by S. Behnaz Hosseini Pdf

Drawing on feminist theory, as well as theory surrounding the correlation between poverty and suicide, this study explores the increased rate of suicide among women in western Iran. Based on empirical research, including interviews with women from the Kurdish region of the country, the author considers the marginalisation of Kurdish populations in Iran, the suppression of their rights, and violence against women in its various forms. With attention to family violence, such as direct physical or sexual assault, psychological bullying or through practices such as forced marriage or honour killings, the author also considers the political nature of such violence, as certain violent practices are enshrined in the Iranian constitution and legitimised in jurisprudential practice. A study of gendered violence and its effects, Women and Suicide in Iran will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of Sociology, Criminology and Middle Eastern Studies with interests in violence, gender and suicide.

Author : Gregory S. Mahler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438496207

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Frustrated Nationalism by Gregory S. Mahler Pdf

The nation-state is seen by many today as the key unit of analysis for international organization and cooperation in the modern age, but not all groups that want to make up and control their own nation-state are able to do so: historical factors, domestic politics, and international relations often prevent them from obtaining sovereign power. Groups that have tried to create a nation-state and failed to do so can be referred to as being "frustrated." Frustrated Nationalism offers case studies by an international collection of scholars who describe the efforts of many of those groups to achieve sovereign status, or at least to obtain greater control over the policies that affect them, their strategies, and their outcomes.

Author : Azadeh Kian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780755650279

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Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran by Azadeh Kian Pdf

Covering the Pahlavi modern nation-state as well as the Islamic regime, this book examines the crucial shifts that affected Sunnite and subaltern women once Shi'ism became the state religion after the Iranian Revolution. Focusing on women in the Baluchistan and Golestan provinces of Iran, Azadeh Kian analyses and explores issues of cultural racialization, ethno-centrism, Shi'a centrism, and patriarchal and chauvinistic ideologies in Iranian society propagated by the state and sustained by its policies. Based on quantitative and qualitative surveys taken throughout Iran, comprised of over 7,000 married women and 100 interviews with a sample of Sunnite and subaltern Persian women, Kian reveals how social hierarchy and power relations based on gender, class, ethnicity and religion operate. She argues that women have been at the heart of the process of national and ethnic re-construction as women, as potential mothers, are expected to reproduce national and ethnic boundaries. Kian argues that by examining the family institution as a site of power, analysing family dynamics as well as women's everyday lives, the politics of ordinary Iranians and the relationship between state and society can be better understood. Kian argues that the time is ripe to achieve a non-hegemonic definition of Iranian national identity, through acknowledgement of gender, class, ethnic, and religious diversity and plurality of experiences of oppression and injustice.

Author : Nicola Degli Esposti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031102479

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Nation and Class in the History of the Kurdish Movement by Nicola Degli Esposti Pdf

This book covers over a century of history, from the emergence of Kurdish nationalism in the interwar period to the 2010s when, for the first time in modern history, Kurdish forces controlled two autonomous political entities in Iraq and Syria, as well as over a hundred municipalities in south-eastern Turkey. In these years of momentous advance for Kurdish forces across the region, Kurdish politics remains deeply divided into competing movements pursuing irreconcilable projects for the future of the nation. The author investigates the origins of the present divide in the history of Kurdish nationalism. The book turns the historical sociology to study nationalism as embedded in social conflicts through a comparative analysis of the history of the Kurdish movement in Iraq and Turkey, by reassessing the literature on Kurdish politics and filling its gaps with numerous interviews with witnesses and scholars.

Author : Tamar Mayer,Trinh Tran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000604368

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Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power by Tamar Mayer,Trinh Tran Pdf

This book centres the voices and agency of migrants by refocusing attention on the diversity and complexity of human mobility when seen from the perspective of people on the move; in doing so, the volume disrupts the binary logics of migrant/refugee, push/pull, and places of origin/destination that have informed the bulk of migration research. Drawn from a range of disciplines and methodologies, this anthology links disparate theories, approaches, and geographical foci to better understand the spectrum of the migratory experience from the viewpoint of migrants themselves. The book explores the causes and consequences of human displacement at different scales (both individual and community-level) and across different time points (from antiquity to the present) and geographies (not just the Global North but also the Global South). Transnational scholars across a range of knowledge cultures advance a broader global discourse on mobility and migration that centres on the direct experiences and narratives of migrants themselves. Both interdisciplinary and accessible, this book will be useful for scholars and students in Migration Studies, Global Studies, Sociology, Geography, and Anthropology.

Author : Michael Eppel
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477311073

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A People Without a State by Michael Eppel Pdf

Numbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and ethnically distinct people to remain stateless. A People Without a State offers an in-depth survey of an identity that has often been ignored in mainstream historiographies of the Middle East and brings to life the historical, social, and political developments in Kurdistani society over the past millennium. Michael Eppel begins with the myths and realities of the origins of the Kurds, describes the effect upon them of medieval Muslim states under Arab, Persian, and Turkish dominance, and recounts the emergence of tribal-feudal dynasties. He explores in detail the subsequent rise of Kurdish emirates, as well as this people’s literary and linguistic developments, particularly the flourishing of poetry. The turning tides of the nineteenth century, including Ottoman reforms and fluctuating Russian influence after the Crimean War, set in motion an early Kurdish nationalism that further expressed a distinct cultural identity. Stateless, but rooted in the region, the Kurds never achieved independence because of geopolitical conditions, tribal rivalries, and obstacles on the way to modernization. A People Without a State captures the developments that nonetheless forged a vast sociopolitical system.

Author : Ofra Bengio
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780292758131

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Kurdish Awakening by Ofra Bengio Pdf

Kurdish Awakening examines key questions related to Kurdish nationalism and identity formation in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. The world's largest stateless ethnic group, Kurds have steadily grown in importance as a political power in the Middle East, particularly in light of the "Arab Spring." As a result, Kurdish issues—political, cultural, and historical alike—have emerged as the subject of intense scholarly interest. This book provides fresh ways of understanding the historical and sociopolitical underpinnings of the ongoing Kurdish awakening and its already significant impact on the region. Rather than focusing on one state or angle, this anthology fills a gap in the literature on the Kurds by providing a panoramic view of the Kurdish homeland's various parts. The volume focuses on aspects of Kurdish nationalism and identity formation not addressed elsewhere, including perspectives on literature, gender, and constitution making. Further, broad thematic essays include a discussion of the historical experiences of the Kurds from the time of their Islamization more than a millennium ago up until the modern era, a comparison of the Kurdish experience with other ethno-national movements, and a treatment of the role of tribalism in modern nation building. This collection is unique in its use of original sources in various languages. The result is an analytically rich portrayal that sheds light on the Kurds' prospects and the challenges they confront in a region undergoing sweeping upheavals.

Author : Zeynep Kaya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474696

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Mapping Kurdistan by Zeynep Kaya Pdf

Examines how the idea of Kurdistan, as a homeland and a source of national identity, was created within international political history.

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization),Rūzbih Mīr Ibrāhīmī
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564324139

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Iran by Human Rights Watch (Organization),Rūzbih Mīr Ibrāhīmī Pdf

"Human Rights Watch calls on the Iranian government to amend or abolish its security laws, press laws, and other legislation that allow the government to suppress rights to peaceful expression and association. Human Rights Watch also urges the Iranian government to respect its international obligations, as well as Iran's constitution, in granting and respecting the social, cultural, and religious rights of the country's Kurdish minority"--Cover, p. [4].

Author : F. Koohi-Kamali
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230535725

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The Political Development of the Kurds in Iran by F. Koohi-Kamali Pdf

This book looks at Kurdish Nationalism in Iran and examines the links between the structural changes in the Kurdish economy and its political demands. Farideh Koohi-Kamali argues that the transition of the nomadic, tribal society of Kurdistan to an agrarian village society was the beginning of a process by which Kurds saw themselves as a community of homogenous ethnic identity. The political movements of Kurds in Iran are discussed to illustrate that the different phases of economic development of Kurdish society played a great role in determining the way in which Kurds expressed their political demands for independence.

Author : David L. Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786725769

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The Great Betrayal by David L. Phillips Pdf

The twentieth century saw dramatic changes in the once Kurd-dominated Kirkuk region of Iraq. Despite having repeatedly relied on the Kurdish population of Iraq for military support, on three occasions the United States have abandoned their supposed allies in Kirkuk. The Great Betrayal provides a political and diplomatic history of the Kirkuk region and its international relations from the 1920s to the present day. Based on first-hand interviews and previously unseen sources, it provides an accessible account of a region at the very heart of America's foreign policy priorities in the Middle East. In September 2017, Iraqi Kurdistan held an independence referendum, intended to be a starting point on negotiations with the Iraqi Government in Baghdad on the terms of a friendly divorce. Though the US, Turkey, and Iran opposed it, the referendum passed with 93% of the vote. Rather than negotiate, Iraq's Prime Minister Heider al-Abadi issued an ultimatum and then attacked the region. Iraq's Kurdish population have been abandoned, once again, by their supposed allies in the US. In this book, David L. Phillips reveals the failings of America's policies towards Kirkuk and the devastating effects of betraying an ally.

Author : Fāliḥ ʻAbd al-Jabbār,Hosham Dawod
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015069349986

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The Kurds by Fāliḥ ʻAbd al-Jabbār,Hosham Dawod Pdf

A landmark study of ethnicity and self-determination in the case of the Kurds.

Author : Minoo Alinia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Kurdish diaspora
ISBN : WISC:89083228940

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Spaces of Diasporas by Minoo Alinia Pdf