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National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘national colonialism’ to capture colonial relations in the nation‐state form. It does so through a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘internal colonialism’, which largely fails to explain the links between nationalism and colonial relations.
Behnam Amini
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ABSTRACT The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation‐building strategies in post‐Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation‐Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically ...
Emre Amasyalı, Andrei Tarasov
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ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor +3 more
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De la Commune aux massacres d’Arménie
George Clemenceau experienced physical and moral violence several times in his lifetime, but a tragic event proved particularly devastating. On March 18, 1871, when he was Mayor of Montmartre, he was a helpless witness to the murder of Generals Lecomte ...
Sylvie Brodziak
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Melusine, Emblem of the Self: The Female Traveler and the Contours of Acceptable Difference
Abstract Though the foreign roots of Volksbücher such as Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine (1457) have long been recognized, these early modern German prose novels are still characterized as insular and folksy. Taking Melusine as an example, this article uses the framework of mobility to offer a new interpretation that posits the Volksbuch as an ...
Andrew C. Sternhagen Schwenk
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ABSTRACT In recent decades, Egypt has been a place of refuge for many individuals fleeing political upheaval, including Sudanese, Syrian, Yemeni, Iraqi, and Palestinian communities. The influx of Sudanese refugees since 2023 has further increased the country's refugee population.
Nevine Nizar Zakaria, Heba Alders
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Quelques défenseurs des droits de l’Homme face à la cause arménienne (fin xixe - début xxe siècles)
This article relates the commitment and actions of prominent French figures of the League for Human Rights – most of whom had been previously involved in the defence of Captain Dreyfus – in favour of Ottoman Armenians, from the late 19th century to the ...
Emmanuel Naquet
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Amazonia's Cassava and Manioc Through Historical Times
ABSTRACT This provocation calls readers to think more deeply about the role anthropology could play in radically disrupting plant blindness. Thanks to Environmental Humanities, the natural world is no longer apprehended as a mere backdrop to human activity.
Laura Rival
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The Official Conceptualization of the anti-Armenian Riots of 1895-1897
This paper examines the official terminology, representations, and narratives regarding the origins and nature of the anti-Armenian riots of 1895-1897.
Edip Gölbaşı
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ABSTRACT Social scientific research from different traditions on collective action under repressive conditions is fragmented across different levels of analysis. The current paper takes a first step toward remedying this fragmentation by reviewing research findings on repression and collective action and organizing them into a multilevel framework.
Arin H. Ayanian +5 more
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