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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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The Plight of Kurdish Natinonalism: Critical Analysis of the Kurds in Turkey, Iran, Iran, and Syria around First World War. [PDF]
, 2006 During recent years the Kurdish question has reappeared, more intensely than before, on the international agenda. For years, this questino has been of fundamental concern to the countries of region,and it has led to intense internal controversies and ...
Delan, Handren
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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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The Role of French Intellectuals in the Development of Kurdish Studies and Kurdish Enlightenment
The Renaissance and Reform movements that started in Italy in the 15th century affected society and culture from all sides and opened the way for a new era, also called The Enlightenment. The French Revolution in 1789, which was based on the ideas of the
Keskin, Necat +2 more
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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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, 2022 This chapter surveys the forms of case marking across the dialects of Kurdish, as represented in the MDKD. Structural and non-structural (semantic) cases are expressed through a range of different exponents: adpositions (pre-, post- and circumpositions),
Gündoğdu, S.
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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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Mariposa Folk Festival Souvenir Program [PDF]
, 1970 Item consists of a 29 page festival program for the Mariposa Folk Festival of 1970, which ran from 24 - 26 July, 1970. Program designers were Frank Perold and Dick Flohil with the centre spread design by Murray McLauchlan.
Flohil, Dick, Perold, Frank
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