The PKK-Kurdistan Workers' Party's Regional Politics : During and after the Cold War

Balci, Ali

Springer International Publishing AG（2016/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 212 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783319422183
• DDC分類 956.6703

Full Description

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.

Contents

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.