ISBN:
9781108474696
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 228 Seiten
,
Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kaya, Zeynep, 1978 - Mapping Kurdistan
DDC:
956.6/702
Keywords:
Kurds Politics and government
;
Kurdistan Politics and government
;
Self-determination, National
;
Nationalism
;
National characteristics, Kurdish
;
Kurdish diaspora
;
Kurdistan International status
;
Kurdistan Boundaries
;
History
;
Kurdistan
;
Selbstbestimmungsrecht
;
Völkerrecht
;
Nationalismus
Abstract:
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Kurdish Territoriality Under Ottoman Rule -- Orientalist Views of National Identity and Colonial Maps of Kurdistan -- Wilsonian self-determination: The rise and fall of hopes for Kurdistan -- Kurdish Nationalism During Decolonisation and the Cold War -- Kurds and the international society after the Cold War -- Kurdish Diaspora: Kurdistan Map Goes Global.
Abstract:
Klappentext: "Since the early twentieth century, Kurds have challenged the borders and national identities of the states they inhabit. Nowhere is this more evident than in their promotion of the map of greater Kurdistan, a unified ideal homeland which encompasses large swathes of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, and a small part of Armenia, in a region with a complex history of ethnic, cultural and political background. The main Kurdish political actors in each of these states claim some ownership or control over a part of a state's territory and they are usually careful to restrict their claims to within the state they reside. All these Kurdistans have been geographically, economically and culturally marginalised in each state and have historically been buffer zones between regional and colonial powers. The idea of greater Kurdistan combines these areas and puts Kurdistan at the centre rather than in the margins. The map of greater Kurdistan is embedded in the consciousness of the majority of Kurdish people, both within the region and, perhaps even more strongly, in the diaspora. The territory it depicts, Kurdistan, has never been a recognised state and does not have a unified political leadership. Yet the concept of Kurdistan, as a cultural and political abstract, survives the reality and exists in the minds of Kurdish nationalists, their supporters as well as those who deny it. The territory depicted on the map is a heterogenous geography inhabited by different ethnic and religious groups such as Arabs, Turks, Persians, Assyrians, Armenians, Yazidis, Christians, and others"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/de/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/mapping-kurdistan-territory-self-determination-and-nationalism?format=HB
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