The PKK-Kurdistan Workers' Party's Regional Politics [electronic resource] : During and After the Cold War /
Balci, Ali.author.
This book presents a theoretical framework to study dissident ethnic movements' imagination of world politics, with a special focus on the PKK as a case study. Dissident ethnic movements are not only a challenge to the existing hegemonic power, but they also produce an alternative closed society based on different ethnic imagination. Instead of taking the armed PKK movement as a pure resistant, this book approaches contemporary Kurdish nationalism led by the PKK as a counter-hegemonic with a narrative that entails the emergence of a new kind of identity and sense of belonging, through which the PKK has been able to exercise its power. This book is an attempt to go beyond resistance-oriented approach, unveiling the two faces of the PKK's representation of world politics: its transformative effect on the Kurds, and its exclusionary function towards traditional and alternative Kurdish subjects/institutions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Identity, Hegemony and Imagining World Politics -- Imagining the Kurdish Nation -- Writing the US as Imperial Power -- Writing the Soviet Union as Comrade -- Re-writing the US after The Cold War -- Conclusion.
This book presents a theoretical framework to study dissident ethnic movements' imagination of world politics, with a special focus on the PKK as a case study. Dissident ethnic movements are not only a challenge to the existing hegemonic power, but they also produce an alternative closed society based on different ethnic imagination. Instead of taking the armed PKK movement as a pure resistant, this book approaches contemporary Kurdish nationalism led by the PKK as a counter-hegemonic with a narrative that entails the emergence of a new kind of identity and sense of belonging, through which the PKK has been able to exercise its power. This book is an attempt to go beyond resistance-oriented approach, unveiling the two faces of the PKK's representation of world politics: its transformative effect on the Kurds, and its exclusionary function towards traditional and alternative Kurdish subjects/institutions.
World politics.
Middle East-History.
Russia-History.
Europe, Eastern-History.
Middle East-Politics and government.
Russia-Politics and government.
Political History.
History of the Middle East.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Middle Eastern Politics.
Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.