The Kurdish national movement in Turkey
Subtitle: from protest to resistance
By: Cengiz Gunes
Series: Exeter studies in ethno politics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780415680479; 9780203180860
Subjects: Politics and government; Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê; Nationalism; Government relations; Resistance to Government; Autonomy and independence movements; Kurds; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Deconstructing Kurdish identity and nationalism in academic discourses; title: Understanding Kurdish identity and nationalism in Turkey; title: The organic intellectuals and the re-emergence of Kurdish political activism in the 1960s; title: The emergence of the Kurdish socialist movement; title: The Kurdish national liberation discourse; title: Becoming a Kurd: the national liberation war and mass mobilisation; title: Dislocations and the PKK's turn to democracy; title: Contesting democracy and pluralism: the pro-Kurdish political parties in Turkey; title: Conclusion: democracy, pluralism and Kurdish subjectivity in (post)national Turkey.