著者名：

Alemdaroğlu, Ayça & Fatma Müge Göçek (ed.)

出版元：

Syracuse U.P.

頁数：

xiii,432p. Pap.

刊行年：

2023

ISBN：

9780815637806

Kurds -- Turkey Social conditions -- History

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.

Introduction/ Ayça Alemdaroğlu and Fatma Müge Göçek
PART One. Alternative Perspectiveson the Historical Origins of Ethnic/Racial Categories in Turkey
"Land of the Kurds" or "Land of the Rocks"?: Changing Perceptions of Kurdistanin Ottoman and European Sources/ Metin Atmaca
Making Minoritiesin the Late Ottoman Period: Armenians and Kurds/ Janet Klein
The Turkishness Contract and the Formation of Turkishness/ Barış Ünlü
Kurds in the History of Displacement in Izmir, 1850-Present/ Michael Ferguson
PART Two. Racialization and Violence
The Making of Coloniality in Turkey: Racialization of Kurds in a Working-Class Districtin Istanbul between 1950 and 1980/ Güllistan Yarkın
"I Would Have RecognizedYou from Your Smell": Racialization of Kurdish Migrant Farmworkers in Western Turkey"/ Deniz Duruiz
Anti-Kurdish Communal Violence in the Twenty-First Century: Origins, Patterns, Directions/ Şefika Kumral
Homo Sacer at the Border: Turkish Narrative Violence in the Representation of the Roboskî Massacre/ Ali Eşref Keleş
PART Three. Micropolitics of Resistance
Far from Separatist Violence: The Kurdish Political Prisoners'Hunger Strike of 2012 in Turkey/ Amy Bartholomew and Ruşen Fırat Güllüoğlu
Silencing Historical Traumas versus Constructing Resistance Narratives: The Saturday Mothers and Peace Mothers in Turkey/ Emine Rezzan Karaman
Institutionalizing Kurdish Women's Political Engagements: Party Politics and Affirmative-Action Measures/ Hazal Atay
A Displaced, Unsettled Political Subject: Kurdish Women's Struggles in Europe/ Nisa Göksel
Afterword