Kurdish gender politics: Funeral ceremonies of female fighters
Abstract The funeral ceremonies of female fighters are a relatively recent phenomenon that gained popularity in Kurdish politics in Turkey in the early 2000s and after the 2011 uprisings in Syria. As a sociocultural rite, these funerals have become a spectacular site, a political means, and a symbolic investment serving an intersectional agenda ...
Yunus Abakay
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Harmony, Head Proximity, and the Near Parallels between Nominal and Clausal Linkers [PDF]
This paper puts forward a notion of harmonic word order that leads to a new generalisation over the presence or absence of disharmony: specific functional heads must cross-linguistically obey this notion of harmony absolutely, while for other categories ...
Philip, J
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Plurilingual reading practices in a global context: Circulation of books and linguistic inequalities [PDF]
Media consumption is commonly seen as a major way of appropriating languages and cultures. Availability and accessibility of material are essential conditions for developing plurilingual cultural practices. Transnational circulation of cultural goods has
Rivière, Marie
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WHY I BELIEVE IN MONSTERS (AND YOU SHOULD TOO) [PDF]
According to Kaplan’s bidimensional theory of demonstratives, the descriptive content of any indexical term (and the sentences they appear in) is only employed to determine its reference in any possible world rigidly but cannot be expressed by the ...
Colomina-Alminana, Juan +1 more
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A perceptual dialectological approach to linguistic variation and spatial analysis of Kurdish Varieties [PDF]
This paper presents the results of the first investigation into Kurdish linguistic varieties and their spatial distribution. Kurdish dialects are used across five nation states in the Middle East and only one dialect, Sorani, has official status in one ...
Benedikt, Josef, Duran Eppler, Eva
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The Politics of Identity, Recognition and Multiculturalism:The Kurds in Turkey [PDF]
The politics of identity and recognition regarding the Kurds in Turkey has gained momentum since 2002 but has never been implemented fully. The rightful critics emphasising the continuity of the State's authoritarian character, however, have not so far ...
Barkey H. J. +32 more
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A critical study of imperatives [PDF]
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (p.
Leszek, Andrea Suzanne
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Religion and ethno-nationalism: Turkey's Kurdish issue [PDF]
Cataloged from PDF version of article.One approach within the Islamic camp treats Islam, which emphasizes overarching notions such as the ‘Islamic brotherhood’ and ‘ummah’, as incompatible with ethno-nationalist ideas and movements.
Fazlioglu, O., Sarigil, Z.
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Kurdyjskie starania o utrzymanie tożsamości kulturowej – przemiany politycznej reprezentacji Kurdów w Republice Tureckiej [PDF]
Artykuł analizuje przemiany politycznej reprezentacji Kurdów w Republice Turcji. Zostały one przedstawione chronologicznie od czasów Imperium Osmańskiego po współczesne relacje Państwa Tureckiego z mniejszością kurdyjską.
Kaczorowski, Karol Paweł
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Kürtçe (Kurmancî) Dersi: Sorunlar ve Çözüm Önerileri (Öğretmen Görüşlerine Göre)
Türkiye’de 2012 yılından itibaren Kürtçe (Kurmancî/Zazakî) dersinin sadece ortaokul kademesinde haftada iki saat seçmeli ders olarak okutulmasına yasal olarak olanak tanınmıştır. Böylece ilk defa Kürtçe öğretimi, devletin ulusal eğitim sistemine dâhil
Kenan Bulut, Rozerin Aydın
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