The second issue of Kurdish Studies is out‏

20 07 2014

Kurdish Studies

Volume 2, Issue 1, May 2014

ISSN: 2051-4883 | e-ISNN: 2051-4891

http://www.kurdishstudies.net/

http://www.tplondon.com/journal/index.php/ks/

Kurdish Studies journal is an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high quality research and scholarship. Kurdish Studies journal is initiated by the members of the Kurdish Studies Network (KSN) and supported by a large group of academics from different disciplines. The journal aligns itself with KSN’s mission to revitalise and reorient research, scholarship and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidisciplinary fashion covering a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, economics, history, society, gender, minorities, politics, health, law, environment, language, media, culture, arts, and education.

Kurdish Studies offers a universally accessible venue where sound scholarship and research as well as reviews and debates are disseminated. The journal establishes a genuine forum for serious discussion and exchange within the Kurdish Studies community, reaching out to a broad audience of students, professionals, policy makers and enthusiasts alike. Kurdish Studies aims to maintain a fair balance between theoretical analyses and empirical studies. Critical and novel approaches and methods are particularly welcome.

Table of contents

Editorial

Martin van Bruinessen

http://www.tplondon.com/journal/index.php/ks/article/view/348

Articles

The Kurds and Middle Eastern “State of Violence”: the 1980s and 2010s

Hamit Bozarslan

http://www.tplondon.com/journal/index.php/ks/article/view/349

Was Halabja a turning point for the poet Buland al-Haydari?

Hilla Peled-Shapira

http://www.tplondon.com/journal/index.php/ks/article/view/270

Dengbêjs on borderlands: Borders and the state as seen through the eyes of Kurdish singer-poets