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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
wiley   +1 more source

Working Towards a Globalized Minority: Regional German-Kurdish Cultural Organizations and Transnational Networks

open access: yes, 2014
German-Kurdish cultural organizations and the Kurdish Diaspora they represent offer an example of a new type of actor in defining globalization. This paper examines how such organizations act as the lynchpin in transnational networks and how such ...
Hoffman, Drew A.
core  

Social movements and the synecdoche problem

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
wiley   +1 more source

Religion and Myth as Two Dimensions of Collective Unconsciousness in Kaka Mam Botany’s WazyacaniRashagom

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2020
  This research entitled “Religion and Myth as Two Dimensions of Collective Unconsciousness in Kaka Mam Botany’s WazyacaniRashagom”. It discusses religion and Myth as two dimensions of the collective unconsciousness.
Mudhafar Mustafa Ismaeel    +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The scarce political and social psychological research on the Kurdish–Turkish context primarily addresses intergroup relations and general perceptions of the conflict. Conversely, Kurds' experiences of and beliefs about collective victimization in this context have not been examined much to date.
Helin Ünal, Johanna Ray Vollhardt
wiley   +1 more source

Aziz Gardi's world view of Kurdish culture and literature

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
Aziz Gardi's world view of Kurdish culture and literature
Rzgar Umer Fattah   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava. The review aims to synthesize existing academic research in English on the interplay between armed conflict and environmental change in the region, focusing on the Kurdish‐led socio‐political model known as the Autonomous ...
Pinar Dinc   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
core   +1 more source

A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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