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ABSTRACT This article examines why the Kurdish Freedom Movement has adopted ecological struggle as a foundational pillar in its politics of decolonisation and the reclamation of autonomy. Framed within the context of colonial and ecocidal developmentalism, the research analyses how policies initiated during the Ottoman Empire and perpetuated by Turkish
Necmettin Türk
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Abstract This article examines how language and environment become constitutive through the emergent environmentalism of Hemshin youth returning to Turkey's Hemshin lands from major cities. As development transforms the landscape, young Hemshins engage in “reading” their lands, encountering linguistic and material traces like stories, place names, and ...
Neşe Kaya‐Özkan
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This study focuses on the provisions of the tafwīz al-talaq as reflected in the fatwas and the function of the tafwīz al-talaq as a remedy within the madhhab in Ottoman family law. It aims to demonstrate the practical forms of the tafwīz al-talaq, which is the husband’s delegation of the right to divorce his wife, and describe the functions it ...
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Territorial Rights and the Debate About the Morality of Zionism
ABSTRACT This paper explores the view that, beyond particular wrongs committed by Zionism, the Zionist project was itself inherently wrong. I argue that the most plausible basis for this claim is the contention that Zionism disrespected the territorial rights of the local Arab population. By examining leading contemporary theories of territorial rights
Daniel Statman
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Palestinian Geographies of Boycott
ABSTRACT Practices of boycott are central to anti‐colonial liberation movements. Since the 2005 call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions by Palestinian civil society organisations, boycott has had multiple distinct iterations that address the uneven production of space under colonialism.
Hashem Abushama
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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda
ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma +2 more
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ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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Fetvava - yi aqhisari: Rukopis u nacionalnoj biblioteci u Beču
Topic of this work is one manuscript Collection of the legal opin- ions - whose author is mufti from Budim Ibrahim el-Akhisari. This manuscript, kept in the National Library in Vienna, was catalogued and described by Gustav Flugel.
Nedim Zahirović
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