Screen LibraryThe PKK-Kurdistan Workers' Party's Regional Politics : During and After the Cold War /
This book presents a theoretical framework to study dissident ethnic movements imagination of world politics, with a special focus on the PKK as a case study. Dissident ethnic movements are not only a challenge to the existing hegemonic power, but they also produce an alternative closed society base...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42219-0 |
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This book presents a theoretical framework to study dissident ethnic movements imagination of world politics, with a special focus on the PKK as a case study. Dissident ethnic movements are not only a challenge to the existing hegemonic power, but they also produce an alternative closed society based on different ethnic imagination. Instead of taking the armed PKK movement as a pure resistant, this book approaches contemporary Kurdish nationalism led by the PKK as a counter-hegemonic with a narrative that entails the emergence of a new kind of identity and sense of belonging, through which the PKK has been able to exercise its power. This book is an attempt to go beyond resistance-oriented approach, unveiling the two faces of the PKK s representation of world politics: its transformative effect on the Kurds, and its exclusionary function towards traditional and alternative Kurdish subjects/institutions. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(X,179pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783319422190 |
| Index Number: | JA81 |
| CLC: | D737.462 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Identity, Hegemony and Imagining World Politics -- Imagining the Kurdish Nation -- Writing the US as Imperial Power -- Writing the Soviet Union as Comrade -- Re-writing the US after The Cold War -- Conclusion. |