Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and Diyarbak?r, 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.
Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and Diyarbak?r, 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.
William Gourlay is a Teaching Associate at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. His work has appeared in a number of key journals, including the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Middle East Critique and Ethnopolitics as well as Australian press. This is his first book.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Eruption in Diyarbakir 1. Identity, ethnicity, politics: from Kemalism to 'New Turkey' Conceiving Turkishness in the Republic of Turkey Kurdishness: long suppressed nationhood, or otherwise Countenancing diversity: re-imagining national identity Identity and difference in flux: the Gezi Park protests Instituting 'Yeni Türkiye' 2. Talking to Kurds about 'Identity' Entering 'the field' An Australian in Kurdish neighbourhoods Conceiving 'identity' Being different, or how to spot a Kurd in Turkey 3. Demarcating Kurdish culture Language: 'ana dil' or 'zimanê me' Celebrating Newroz, or Nevruz Resisting managed diversity 4. The Kurds and Islam: defying hegemony and the 'caliphate' Kurds & Islam Islam in the Republic of Turkey The AKP and Islam in the public sphere Shifting Kurdish relationships with Islam Kurds as 'Others' Contesting Islam and asserting difference 5. Contesting homeland(s): city, soil and landscape 'Toprak': naming, claiming and relating to the landscape Diyarbakir: symbolic city Alternative labels Spatial contestations: identity and politics 6. Kurdayetî: Pan-Kurdish sentiment and solidarity Kurdayetî: both 'we' and 'us' Crises, cross-border movement and consolidating solidarity Kurdayetî confronts ISIS Victory over ISIS and its aftermath Cross-border currents 7. Oppression, solidarity, resistance Kurds in Turkey: a History of Oppression? Oppression Catalysing a Collective Identity Berxwedan Jiyane: 'Resistance is Life' Maintaining resistance in 'New Turkey'? 8. Kurds as citizens Citizenship as obligation, imposition, resignation Weight of circumstances: belonging, friends, relatives Participating in politics: citizenship made manifest Struggling for democracy? Turning up - again - at the ballot box The 'ideal': retaining currency? Conclusion: reconciling ethnic identity, citizenship and the 'ideal' in Erdogan's Turkey? Whither the Kurds? Bibiliography
Acknowledgements Introduction: Eruption in Diyarbakir 1. Identity, ethnicity, politics: from Kemalism to 'New Turkey' Conceiving Turkishness in the Republic of Turkey Kurdishness: long suppressed nationhood, or otherwise Countenancing diversity: re-imagining national identity Identity and difference in flux: the Gezi Park protests Instituting 'Yeni Türkiye' 2. Talking to Kurds about 'Identity' Entering 'the field' An Australian in Kurdish neighbourhoods Conceiving 'identity' Being different, or how to spot a Kurd in Turkey 3. Demarcating Kurdish culture Language: 'ana dil' or 'zimanê me' Celebrating Newroz, or Nevruz Resisting managed diversity 4. The Kurds and Islam: defying hegemony and the 'caliphate' Kurds & Islam Islam in the Republic of Turkey The AKP and Islam in the public sphere Shifting Kurdish relationships with Islam Kurds as 'Others' Contesting Islam and asserting difference 5. Contesting homeland(s): city, soil and landscape 'Toprak': naming, claiming and relating to the landscape Diyarbakir: symbolic city Alternative labels Spatial contestations: identity and politics 6. Kurdayetî: Pan-Kurdish sentiment and solidarity Kurdayetî: both 'we' and 'us' Crises, cross-border movement and consolidating solidarity Kurdayetî confronts ISIS Victory over ISIS and its aftermath Cross-border currents 7. Oppression, solidarity, resistance Kurds in Turkey: a History of Oppression? Oppression Catalysing a Collective Identity Berxwedan Jiyane: 'Resistance is Life' Maintaining resistance in 'New Turkey'? 8. Kurds as citizens Citizenship as obligation, imposition, resignation Weight of circumstances: belonging, friends, relatives Participating in politics: citizenship made manifest Struggling for democracy? Turning up - again - at the ballot box The 'ideal': retaining currency? Conclusion: reconciling ethnic identity, citizenship and the 'ideal' in Erdogan's Turkey? Whither the Kurds? Bibiliography
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