ISBN:
9780415824187
,
0415824184
,
9780203584736
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 227 S.
,
Kt.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics 59
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics
DDC:
305.891/5970561
Keywords:
Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê
;
Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê
;
1900 - 2099
;
Kurds History
;
Autonomy and independence movements
;
Kurds History 20th century
;
Kurds History 21st century
;
Political violence History 20th century
;
Political violence History 21st century
;
National characteristics, Kurdish
;
Kurds History
;
Autonomy and independence movements
;
Turkey
;
Kurds History
;
20th century
;
Turkey
;
Kurds History
;
21st century
;
Turkey
;
Political violence History
;
20th century
;
Turkey
;
Political violence History
;
21st century
;
Turkey
;
National characteristics, Kurdish
;
HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
;
Kurds
;
Kurds Autonomy and independence movements
;
National characteristics, Kurdish
;
Political violence Turkey
;
History
;
Historische Darstellung
;
Türkei
;
Kurden
;
Gewalt
;
Politik
;
Nationalcharakter
Abstract:
"The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain through an analysis of life stories, personal narratives and testimonies of Kurdish subjects in contemporary Turkey. It traces the physical and psychological impacts of the war between the state security forces and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) guerrillas in the last three decades, in Kurdish populated areas in the south-eastern part of Turkey. Focusing on the instrumentalization of violence, the ensuing and manufactured culture of fear, gendered experiences of state violence, pain, incarceration, and corporeal punishment, Ramazan Aras argues that these phenomena have shaped contemporary Kurdish history and memory. Analysing occurrences of various forms of protracted state violence and fear not only as personal and differential markers experienced by individuals, but also as communally-felt phenomena which have engendered collective suffering, this book asserts that these traumatic experiences have marked the social body and produced a prevailing narrative of Kurdishness.Providing an anthropological study of political violence, fear, and pain amongst the Kurdish community in Turkey, this book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Kurdish Studies, Middle East Studies and Anthropology"--
Abstract:
"The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain through an analysis of life stories, personal narratives and testimonies of Kurdish subjects in contemporary Turkey. It traces the physical and psychological impacts of the war between the state security forces and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) guerrillas in the last three decades, in Kurdish populated areas in the south-eastern part of Turkey. Focusing on the instrumentalization of violence, the ensuing and manufactured culture of fear, gendered experiences of state violence, pain, incarceration, and corporeal punishment, Ramazan Aras argues that these phenomena have shaped contemporary Kurdish history and memory. Analysing occurrences of various forms of protracted state violence and fear not only as personal and differential markers experienced by individuals, but also as communally-felt phenomena which have engendered collective suffering, this book asserts that these traumatic experiences have marked the social body and produced a prevailing narrative of Kurdishness. Providing an anthropological study of political violence, fear, and pain amongst the Kurdish community in Turkey, this book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Kurdish Studies, Middle East Studies and Anthropology
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index
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