Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Between nationalism and women's rights : the Kurdish women's movement in Iraq [PDF]
This article explores an aspect of the micro-politics of the 'new Iraq' by examining the understudied topic of the Iraqi-Kurdish women's movement.
Al-Ali, Nadje +5 more
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Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms
ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
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Corruption and Kurdish Nationalism: A Case Study of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq [PDF]
This paper critically examines the intersection of corruption and Kurdish nationalism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). It focuses on the role of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) post-1991 as key ...
Chomani, Kamal
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The dilemma of Kurdish nationalism as a result of international treaties and foreign occupations between the years 1850 to 1930 [PDF]
This thesis is discussing the failing Kurdish nationalism between the year 1850 and 1930. The researcher discusses various difficulties faced by the Kurdish nationalism, particularly due to the fact that Kurdistan was occupied by the Ottoman and Persian ...
Ahmad, Chnor Jaafar
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Reflection of the Kurdish Issue in the American New York Times During the Period between (1961-1968)
The New York Times is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper has a great influence on its readers internationally. The first issue was published on September 18, 1851 as the New York Daily Times. Throughout its life, it has been one
Qaraman Haidar Rahman +1 more
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Kurdish Nationalism's Moment of Truth? [PDF]
“Prolonged instability and violence or state collapse in Syria and Iraq, as well as major changes in Turkish attitudes, may produce the right conditions for the establishment of a Kurdish state or new autonomous regions.” Third in a series on resurgent nationalism around the world.
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Abstract Family Album follows a young university student assisting a journalist in documenting a glass workers' strike in Istanbul's Paşabahçe neighborhood during the summer of 1999. Immersed in the atmosphere of solidarity and collective struggle, she accompanies the journalist to interview Murat, a key strike organizer, in his shanty house ...
Deniz Yonucu
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Kurdish refugee communities : the diaspora in Finland and England [PDF]
This thesis describes the social organisation of Kurdish refugee communities and is a contribution to the theoretical discussion of the concept of diaspora. Field research methods were used in this comparative sociological study among Kurdish refugees
Wahlbeck, Östen
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The origins of kurdish nationalism: sociopolitical concepts and Islam in the writings of the Kurds, 1898-1918 [PDF]
Currently, Kurdish nationalism is an important social and political question for four Near Eastern counties as it concerns their internal affairs. However, although it is a phenomenon in development, its historical roots are deep and reaching until the ...
Issi, Murat, Ισσί, Μουράτ
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