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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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Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English
, 2022 This study is a reading of selected poems of Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani—two Kurdish-Iraqi poets—from their collections of poetry in English. It approaches these poems by classifying them as ‘poetry of witness’, a term coined by Carolyn Forché for ...
Zhila Gholami, Gholami, Zhila
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Renewal Features in the Structure of Dilzar's Poetic Forms
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردیAs an innovative Kurdish poet, Dilzar has made significant advancements in the form of his poetry, giving his work a fresh and distinct character. This study aims to explore the innovative changes that have transformed Kurdish poetry during his time ...
Sarbaz Majid Khoshnaw
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Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023 Language is the main pillar of Stylistic, and one of these principles is deviation from the rules and constitution of the language. According to most stylistic poets, deviation is the main basis of poetry, which distinguishes the poetic text from normal
Kamaran Aba-bakr Khudhur +1 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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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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New Arabic Records From Cairo on Supernovae 1181 and 1006
Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 346, Issue 9, November 2025.ABSTRACT The remnant of the historical supernova SN 1181 is under discussion: While the previously suggested G130.7+3.1 (3C58) appears too old (3000–5000 year), the unusual star IRAS00500+6713 with a surrounding nebula (Pa‐30) has an expansion age not inconsistent with a SN Iax explosion in ad 1181 under the assumption that neither acceleration nor ...
J. G. Fischer +3 more
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Enlightenment Thinking and its Consequences in Contemporary Kurdish Poetry
Journal of University of Raparin, 2022 Enlightenment as an intellectual concept is the result of the perspectives of many thinkers and philosophers in the western world. It has become the source of deep change in the western culture and thinking; it has also come into the eastern world and culture.
Lanja Abdurahman Ghareeb +1 more
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How does religion influence an emerging nationalism? Evidence from the Kurdish context in Turkey
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 982-1002, October 2025.Abstract Based on qualitative interviews with 66 Sunni Muslim Kurdish elites, this study reveals that Kurdish Islamic circles in Turkey are not monolithic, homogeneous or fixed. Some willingly or unwillingly maintain their Islamic identity as a primary reference point for self‐consciousness, motivation for collective action and political aspirations ...
Muttalip Caglayan
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Re-Considering State-Society Dynamics in Turkey’s Kurdish Southeast [PDF]
, 2017 State-society relations in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast have long been characterized as pitting a powerful and determined state against a reluctant, resistant, but largely overwhelmed population. Such an image of a binary, state versus society relationship
Watts, Nicole F.
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