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While dramatic changes taking place in the Middle East offer
important opportunities to the Kurdish century-long struggle for
recognition, serious obstacles seem to keep reemerging every time
the Kurds anywhere make progress. The large Kurdish geography,
extending from western Iran to near the eastern Mediterranean, and
a century of repression and denial have engendered various Kurdish
groups with competing and at times conflicting views and goals. The
Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics, with
an emphasis on continuity and change in the Kurdish Question,
brings together a group of well-known scholars to shed light on
this complex issue.
While dramatic changes taking place in the Middle East offer
important opportunities to the Kurdish century-long struggle for
recognition, serious obstacles seem to keep reemerging every time
the Kurds anywhere make progress. The large Kurdish geography,
extending from western Iran to near the eastern Mediterranean, and
a century of repression and denial have engendered various Kurdish
groups with competing and at times conflicting views and goals. The
Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics, with
an emphasis on continuity and change in the Kurdish Question,
brings together a group of well-known scholars to shed light on
this complex issue.
This book argues that citizenship is an inadequate solution to the
problem of statelessness based on a critical investigation of the
lived experiences of Kurdish and Palestinian diasporas in western
Europe. It examines how statelessness affects identity formations,
homelessness, belonging, non-belonging, otherness, voices, status,
(non)recognition, (dis)respect, (in)visibility and presence in the
uneven world of nation-states. It also demonstrates that the
undoing of non-sovereign identities' subjection to structural
subalternization and everyday inferiorization requires rights in
excess of the mere acquisition of juridical citizenship, which
tends to assume national sameness. That assumption in turn involves
sovereign practices of denial and assimilation of ethnic alterity.
The book therefore highlights the necessity of de-ethnicizing and
decolonizing unitary nation-states that are based on the
politico-cultural supremacy of a single, "core" ethnicity as the
sovereign legislator of the rules and regimes of national belonging
and un-belonging. It therefore broaches questions of "majority" and
"minority," mobility, nationalism, home-making, equality,
difference and universalism in the context of the nation-state and
illustrates how stateless peoples such as Kurds and Palestinians
endure and challenge their subordinate position in a hierarchical
(geo-)political order and how in so doing remain bound by political
otherness.
This book argues that citizenship is an inadequate solution to the
problem of statelessness based on a critical investigation of the
lived experiences of Kurdish and Palestinian diasporas in western
Europe. It examines how statelessness affects identity formations,
homelessness, belonging, non-belonging, otherness, voices, status,
(non)recognition, (dis)respect, (in)visibility and presence in the
uneven world of nation-states. It also demonstrates that the
undoing of non-sovereign identities' subjection to structural
subalternization and everyday inferiorization requires rights in
excess of the mere acquisition of juridical citizenship, which
tends to assume national sameness. That assumption in turn involves
sovereign practices of denial and assimilation of ethnic alterity.
The book therefore highlights the necessity of de-ethnicizing and
decolonizing unitary nation-states that are based on the
politico-cultural supremacy of a single, "core" ethnicity as the
sovereign legislator of the rules and regimes of national belonging
and un-belonging. It therefore broaches questions of "majority" and
"minority," mobility, nationalism, home-making, equality,
difference and universalism in the context of the nation-state and
illustrates how stateless peoples such as Kurds and Palestinians
endure and challenge their subordinate position in a hierarchical
(geo-)political order and how in so doing remain bound by political
otherness.
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