The PKK-Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Regional Politics
During and After the Cold War
Nonfiction, History, Middle East, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory
| Author: | Ali Balci | ISBN: | 9783319422190 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing | Publication: | November 30, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ali Balci |
| ISBN: | 9783319422190 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
| Publication: | November 30, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
