Balci, Ali. The PKK-Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Regional Politics : During and After the Cold War / [electronic resource] : / by Ali Balci.. — 1st ed. 2017.. — X, 212 p. : online resource.
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.
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Анотація: 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.
9783319422190
10.1007/978-3-319-42219-0 doi
World politics. Middle East—History. Russia—History. Europe, Eastern—History. Middle East—Politics and government. Russia—Politics and government. Political History. History of the Middle East. Russian, Soviet, and East European History. Middle Eastern Politics. Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.