The Kurdish Movement in Turkey
Nationalism, Social Movements and Recurring Cycles of Conflict
The Kurdish Movement in Turkey
Nationalism, Social Movements and Recurring Cycles of Conflict
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This book examines the Kurdish movement in the context of total social movement theory. First tracing its origins as a conventionally nationalist movement, Elsa Sen draws upon Alain Touraine's concept of a total social movement to argue that from 2000 to 2015 the Kurds in Turkey pursued a policy of engaging in a peace process, channeling energy into civil society activism and electoral campaigns, and promoting an inclusive understanding of national identity for all the components of Turkish society – not just the Kurds – in a hypothetically fully functioning democracy. Both theoretically informed and drawing upon empirical research in the form of interviews with Kurdish and Turkish activists, non-activists and political representatives, the book provides a new perspective on contemporary Kurdish politics as oscillating between nationalist and social movement paradigms, with the recent decline of the latter due to the resumption of military action by the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party after 2015.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Methodology - Reality not only touches our intellect but also our sentiments
CHAPTER 1
Nationalisms and social movements
CHAPTER 2
Rereading the historical foundations of Kurdish nationalism
CHAPTER 3
The emergence of a proto-social movement
CHAPTER 4
The Kurdish movement in Turkey becomes a social movement (2000-2013)
CHAPTER 5
A Kurdish Total Social Movement A La Touraine? (2013-2015)
CHAPTER 6
The end of the total social movement: 'the failure of the social'
CONCLUSION -
What now ? - Semantics and administration
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| Published | Aug 21 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9780755644063 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Series | Contemporary Turkey |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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