Abstract
The Kurdish Model of Political Community: A Vision of National Liberation Defiant of the Nation-State undertakes a task long due in Kurdish studies: addressing common misunderstandings about and outlining theoretical implications of Kurdish politics. Hanifi Baris develops his arguments with an historical examination and finds apathy towards and a resistance to state-building in Kurdistan. Accordingly, Baris argues, this tendency to establish self-government with distaste to state-building has enabled major Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria to develop a form of political community that constitutes a viable alternative to those based on theocratic, imperial and national sovereignty. Thus, Baris concludes, rather than being a conflict between competing nationalisms, the current Kurdish conflict in Turkey and Syria is between competing visions of political community.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Lanham |
| Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Number of pages | 234 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-7936-0001-1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-7936-0000-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations |
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| Publisher | Lexington Books |
Keywords
- Kurdish politics
- nation-state
- Democratic Autonomy
- Political Community
- Confederalism
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Hanifi Baris
- School of Language, Literature, Music & Visual Culture, Spanish & Latin American Studies - Research Fellow
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