Special Issue on the Kurdish Diaspora
Kurdish Studies, Volume 3, Issue 2, October 2015
Guest edited by Bahar Baser, Ann-Catrin Emanuelsson, and Mari Toivanen
The latest issue of Kurdish Studies is out. It is a special issue focusing on the Kurdish diaspora and is guest edited by Bahar Baser, Ann-Catrin Emanuelsson and Mari Toivanen. 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 revitalize 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
Introduction: (In)visible spaces and tactics of transnational engagement: A multi-dimensional approach to the Kurdish diaspora
Bahar Baser, Ann-Catrin Emanuelsson and Mari Toivanen
Radical political participation and the internal Kurdish diaspora in Turkey
Francis O’Connor
The imaginary Kurdish museum: Ordinary Kurds, narrative nationalisms and collective memory
Vera Eccarius-Kelly
Filming family and negotiating return in making Haraka Baraka: Movement is a blessing
Lana Askari
Reflections on the Kurdish diaspora: An interview with Dr. Kendal Nezan
Mari Toivanen
http://www.tplondon.com/journal/index.php/ks/article/viewFile/594/433
Thomas Schmidinger, Krieg und Revolution in Syrisch-Kurdistan: Analysen und Stimmen aus Rojava (Mandelbaum, 2014). Reviewed by Martin van Bruinessen.
Bahar Baser, Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts: A Comparative Perspective (Ashgate, 2015). Reviewed by Marlies Casier.
Bryan R. Gibson, Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War (Palgrave, 2015). Reviewed by Serhun Al.
Alex Danilovich, Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together (Ashgate, 2014). Reviewed by Ann-Catrin Emanuelsson.
Sherko Kirmanj, Identity and Nation in Iraq (Lynne Rienner, 2013). Reviewed by Diana P. Hatchett.
Cenk Saraçoğlu, Kurds of Modern Turkey: Migration, Neoliberalism and Exclusion in Turkish Society (IB Tauris, 2011). Reviewed by Bediz Yilmaz.
Tatort Kurdistan. Demokratische Autonomie in Nordkurdistan, Rätbewegung, Geschlechterbefreiung und Ökologie in der Praxis(Informationsstelle Kurdistan, 2012) & Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboğa and Michael Knapp, Revolution in Rojava, Frauenbewegung und Kommunalismus zwischen Krieg und Embargo (VSA Verlag, 2015). Reviewed by Joost Jongerden
Welat Zeydanlioglu
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