Description
With an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. Kurds constitute about 20 percent of Turkey, the largest Kurdish population in the region. The history of the Kurds in Turkey is marked by state violence against them and decades of conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdish fighters. Although the continuous struggle of the Kurdish people is well known, and the political actors involved in the conflict have received much attention, an increasing wave of scholarship is being written from the vantage point of the Kurds themselves.
Alemdaroglu and Göçek's volume develops a fresh approach by moving away from top-down Turkish nationalist macroanalyses to a microanalysis of how Kurds and Kurdistan as historical and ethnic categories were constructed from the bottom up. Contributors look beyond the politics of state actors to examine how Kurdish workers, women, youth, and political prisoners experience and resist marginalization, exclusion, and violence. Kurds in Dark Times opens an essential window into the lives of Kurds by generating meaningful insights into the formal and informal ways of negotiating their power and place in Turkey; and therefore, it provides crucial perspectives for any endeavor to create peace and reconciliation in the country.Author: Ayça Alemdaroglu
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 01/03/2023
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d
ISBN13: 9780815637707
ISBN10: 0815637705
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | Middle Eastern Studies
- History | Middle East | Turkey & Ottoman Empire
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
About the Author
Ayça Alemdaroglu is a research scholar and associate director of the Program on Turkey at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.
Fatma Müge Göçek is professor of sociology and women's studies at the University of Michigan.