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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 194-204, April 2026.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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Bayt and Its Features in Kurdish Folk Literature
Volume: 8, Issue: UMS', 2020 The richest kinds in Kurdish literature are folklore and folk literature. Folk literature is considered to belong to the public and is very common among the people. Kurdish (Kurmanji) Bayt, epic and narrative verse much valued in Kurdish Folk Literature. Epic (Destan) is one of the oldest literary genres.
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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity
Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 34-44, February 2026.Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
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Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 22-39, January 2026.ABSTRACT Colonial monolingual norms are a present oppressive force within schooling spaces, with a direct assimilative target on the linguistic practices of historically marginalized peoples, histories, and knowledge systems. For racially minoritized multilingual refugee learners, the space of in‐school science learning can be experienced as an ...
Sophia Thraya +2 more
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Small‐Scale Village Farmers, Farming Imaginaries and Enrichment Value Creation in Ankara, Turkey
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT How are we to understand the continuing importance of small‐scale village farming in a country like Turkey, which is undergoing an expanding process of industrialization and commodification in agriculture? There are two sides to this question: One concerns land use reconfiguration for commercial purposes, contraction of small‐scale farmland ...
Yıldız Atasoy
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 233-245, January 2026.ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
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A Comprehensive Review of Gene Mutations in Inherited Blood Disorders Among the Saudi Population
Human Mutation, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Background Inherited blood disorders (IBDs) are a major health concern in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), largely due to the high prevalence of consanguineous marriages. Objectives This review is aimed at summarizing gene mutations and variants associated with IBDs in the Saudi population to enhance diagnosis and personalized care. Methods Published
Nancy S. Younis +12 more
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From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States
Middle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 3-17, Winter 2025.Abstract A new approach to rebuilding collapsed states is being trialed in the Arab world, most conspicuously by the Trump administration but with broad international support. This replaces the previous model—favoring democratic building blocks like inclusion, compromise, reconciliation, accountability, and citizenship—which is now seen as too costly ...
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
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Towards an Understanding of Mukriyani Style of Poetry
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2016 Mukriyani style of poetry has developed from a process of activating a number of linguistic and literary potentials that, since the time of Haji Qadir Koyi, have remained hidden in Kurdish literature–in Central Kurmanci dialect.
Rahbar Mahmouzadeh
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