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The Kurdish model of political community: a vision of national liberation defiant of the nation-state Kurdish societies, politics, and international relations./ Hanifi Baris.

, 2021
Includes bibliographical references and index."National sovereignty entails exclusive ownership of territories and natural resources, which often leads to uncompromising domination and subjugation of life by a central political authority.
Baris Hanifi
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1116-1132, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Re‐Materialising the Geography of Religion: A ‘Triple‐I’ Framework of Infrasecularity, Iconicity and Infrastructuring

Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholarship in the Geography of religion has expanded the study of religious space beyond formal places of worship to informal and temporary sites. This article reviews these developments while highlighting a persistent gap: the limited attention paid to the material agency of architecture.
Silvia Omenetto
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An Examination of Cultural Transformation in Türkiye After 1980 in the Context of “Neoliberal Governmentality”

Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 522-542, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The January 24 Decisions of 1980 and the subsequent Özal era marked a profound rupture, carrying Türkiye from an import substitution economy to an outward‐oriented, “free‐market” order. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of neoliberal governmentality, this study conducts a qualitative, interpretivist discourse analysis of Turgut Özal's ...
Muhammed Salim Danış
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The Kurdish Liberation Movement in Iraq: From Insurgency to Statehood

, 2014
Investigating the transformation of the Kurdish liberation movement in Iraq this book explores its development from an armed guerrilla movement, engaged in a war for liberation with the government in Baghdad, into the government of a de facto Kurdish ...
Voller, Yaniv
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Rethinking Political Islam in Iran: Contestation, Authority, and Reform

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract Political Islam in Iran is frequently portrayed in Western scholarship and policy discourse as a unified and rigid ideological system rooted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. However, this article contends that it operates as a plural and internally contested field in which state‐directed, reformist‐clerical, and civic interpretations compete ...
Nagapushpa Devendra
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Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests

, 2017
This edited volume introduces the political, social and economic intra-Kurdish dynamics in the Middle East by comparatively analyzing the main actors, their ideas, and political interests.
Tugdar E.E., Al, Serhun
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Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1563, Issue 1, September 2026.
We analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds., despite substantial differences in linguistic structure and prosody. A comparative rhythm analysis shows that human speech falls within the range reported
Lara S. Burchardt, Ludger Paschen, Susanne Fuchs   +2 more
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Decolonial Entangled Ethnographic Research: Transformative Collaborations With the UK Alevi Community Over the Last 15 Years

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 219-226, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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Nation and Narration: The Representation of Kurdish identity in Contemporary Media

reservedAbstract The purpose of the thesis is to examine how Kurdish identity is portrayed across various media platforms and the artists representing Kurdish identity in the context of national identity and narrative. By analyzing these representations,
SAVLI, NURULLAH NAKI
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