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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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The Current Scenario of English in Education in Rojava: Policy, Implementation and Implications
TESOL TodayRecent changes in English language education in Rojava have led to a need for understanding the challenges faced by teachers in Rojava’s universities.
Jihan Ago Ayo, Brian Hibbs
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In Desperate Need: Public Sanitation in Contemporary London
Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 193-214, January 2025.Abstract There has been a collapse in the number of public toilets in UK cities. Austerity cuts, a lack of legal requirements, and a failure to prioritise sanitation has led to significant health and equality impacts. Research on public toilets in the Global North focuses on their historical production, contemporary design, or on the experience of ...
Victoria Habermehl, Colin McFarlane
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The Status of Women in Kurdish Society and the Extent of Their Interactions in Public Realm
SAGE Open, 2022 Apart from the traditional Kurdish gender regime, which originates from the Kurdish tribal structure and which to some extent restricts the visibility of women in society, the status of Kurdish women is considered to be relatively high in comparison with
Hooshmand Alizadeh +3 more
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 363-386, December 2024.Abstract The conflict between the Perso‐Shiite state and its opposition, especially Kurdish political organizations in Iran/Eastern Kurdistan, and their subsequent suppression, has led to the migration of many Kurds since the early 1980s. This exodus has affected their political identification.
Sabah Mofidi
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Gender Revolution in Rojava: The Voices beyond Tabloid Geopolitics [PDF]
Geopolitics, 2018 Kurdish women fighters of the Women’s Protection Unit, YPJ (Yekineyen Parastine Jin) received considerable attention in Western Europe and the United States. They made the headlines of mainstream newspapers and magazines. The emergence of an all-women, secular military force in the Middle East initiated a multi-layered process of conditional ...
Simsek, Bahar, Jongerden, J.P.
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“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars
American Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 3, Page 509-520, September 2024.Abstract This article focuses on female bodies co‐laboring across the racial lines and academic‐activist divides to explore both the potentials and constraints of feminist solidarity in the hyper‐masculine and ultra‐nationalist normative order of the global war on terror.
Serra Hakyemez, Ozlem Yasak
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SYRIAN AND IRAQI KURDISTAN: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF STATE BUILDING
Вестник Брянского государственного университетаThis article analyzes the emergence of governments autonomous from Syria and Iraq, which represent the ethnic and cultural minority of Kurds living in these territories.
Suleiman A.A.
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Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty
American Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 394-396, August 2024.Abstract This commentary asks what would change about the analyses in AE’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum if the state were not assumed as the background. Using research on unrecognized states and their citizens, the commentary urges a return to the problem of sovereignty that takes seriously the desires that sovereignty evokes ...
Rebecca Bryant
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English Language Education in North and East Syria “Rojava” Today: Challenges and Opportunities
TESOL TodayThe focus of this study is to investigate the challenges that English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Rojava face in learning English language and the opportunities to overcome the challenges.
Hividar Muhammed Muhammed +2 more
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