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Iranian Kurdistan Since the 1979 Revolution:

Resistance, Change and Transformation

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Iranian Kurdistan Since the 1979 Revolution:

Resistance, Change and Transformation

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The recent civil unrest and protests in Iran brought the Kurdish struggle back into the spotlight. Yet studies on the Kurds and Iran remain limited. This edited book brings together scholars from across Kurdish and Iranian studies to collectively examine many aspects of the history of Iranian Kurdistan since the 1979 Revolution. Kurdish society in Iran has shown great transformations over the last four decades. This book takes a multidisciplinary and transnational approach to create a key resource for scholars on the Iranian Kurds. Divided into 6 parts, the book's aim is to be comprehensive, covering a wide range of subjects from history, economics, politics and art, to gender, civil society, film and the diaspora. The first edited work on Kurdish society in Iran, the book is based on the new theoretical and academic achievements of the past few decades.

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Introduction: Kurdistan since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Marouf Cabi, LSE, University of London, UK; Allan Hassaniyan, University of Exeter, UK, and Robert Lower, LSE, University of London, UK;

PART 1: HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

1. Persia or Iran: problems of modern Iranian historiography, Marouf Cabi, LSE, University of London, UK

2. The Iranian nation-state, the security lens and its Others: Practicing Persian superiority, Barzoo Eliassi, Linnaeus University, Sweden

3. Kurdish national liberation movement in Iran, the ''other'' of the international order of states, Sahar Bagheri, Sorbonne Paris Nord University, France

4. Transnational Origins of the Kurdish Movement in Iran since the late 1990s, Jahangir Mahmoudi, University of Kurdistan, Iran

5. The Muslim Peshmerga and the IRGC: How the Iranian Islamist Regime Won and Lost Its Kurdish Allies, Siarhei Bohdan, University of Regensburg, Germany

PART 2: CULTURE AND IDENTIY

6. Songs and Musical Variations: Kurdish Representations in post-1979 Iran, Lorane Prévost, University of Oxford, UK

7. Walk or die, cinematic patterns of body and land in Kurdish movies, Hemen Heidari, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

PART 3: ECONOMY AND POLITICS

8. Kurdistan and the Event of Dovvom-e Khordad, Khaled Tavakoli, Independent Scholar

9. From de-tribalization to re-tribalization: Instrumentalization of tribal ties among the Kurmanji-speaking Kurds in post-revolutionary Iran, Mostafa Khalili, University of Kyoto, Japan.

10. A Landscape of (Im)mobility in a Kurdish Border Village, Moslem Ghomashlouyan, University of Bern, Switzerland

PART 4: GENDER

11. An Analysis of Femicide Phenomenon in Iranian Society: Racism or Feminism?, Fatima Karimi, Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France

12. Dehumanizing Kurdish men, delegitimising Kurdish nationalist movement: The portrayal of Kurdish and Persian masculinities in Iranian war-films, Kaveh Ghobadi, Independent Researcher

PART 5: CIVIL SOCIETY

13. From Armed Struggle to Associational Life: Kurdish Women's Intersectional Activism in Rojhelat, Azad (Rahim) Hajiagha, Jagiellonian University, Poland


14. The role of student activity in the socio-political dynamics of the Kurdish society in Eastern Kurdistan (1990-2010), Sabah Mofidi, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

PART 6: DIASPORA

15. The Forgotten refugees: Rojhelati refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Allan Hassaniyan, University of Exeter, UK

16. Exploring Identity Crisis and Radicalization in Laleh Khadivi's A Good Country, Zhila Gholami. Griffith University, Australia

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 21 Jan 2027
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 272
ISBN 9780755658695
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Kurdish Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Allan Hassaniyan

Anthology Editor

Robert Lowe

Robert Lowe is Deputy Director of the LSE Middle E…

Anthology Editor

Marouf Cabi

Marouf Cabi received his PhD in History from the U…

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