The Kurdish Question Revisited
edited by Gareth Stansfield and Mohammed Shareef
Table of Contents
Introduction
Gareth Stansfield (University of Exeter) and Mohammed Shareef (University of Exeter)
PART I
REFLECTIONS ON IDENTITY, CULTURE, AND THE NATION
1. Social Movement Theory and Political Mobilization in Kurdistan
David Romano (Missouri State University)
2. Religion Among the Kurds: Between Naqshbandi Sufism and IS Salafism
Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam)
3. New Perspectives on Writing the History of the Kurds in Iraq, Syria and Turkey: A History and State of the Art Assessment
Jordi Tejel (Graduate Institute of Geneva)
4. Politics of Memory: Kurdish Ethnic Identity and the Role of Collective Forgetting
Hakan Özo?lu (University of Central Florida)
5. 'Being in Time': The Kurdish Movement and Quests of Universal
Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS Paris)
6. Separated but Connected: The Synergic Effects in the Kurdistan Sub-System
Ofra Bengio (Tel Aviv University)
7. Fact and Fiction in Modern Kurdish Narrative Discourse
Hashem Ahmadzadeh (University of Stockholm)
8. Political and Everyday Religion in Kurdistan
Diane E. King (University of Kentucky)
9. The Shifting Borders of Conflict, Difference, and Oppression: Kurdish Folklore Revisited
Christine Allison (University of Exeter)
10. Kurdish Music in Armenia: The Music of the Yezidis
Nahro Zagros (University of Soran)
PART II
THE KURDISH QUESTION AND TURKEY
11. The Sheikh Ubeidullah Rebellion of 1880
Sabri Ates (Southern Methodist University)
12. Journalism Beyond Borders: The Bedirkhans and the First Kurdish Gazette, 1898-1902
Janet Klein (University of Akron)
13. Mobilisation of Kurds in Turkey during the 1980s and the 1990s
Cengiz Gunes (The Open University)
14. Turkey's Kurdish Problems, The Kurds' Turkish Problems
Bill Park (King's College London)
15. The Transformation of Turkey's Kurdish Question
Henri Barkey (The Wilson Center)
16. Contrasting Turkish Paradigms Towards the Volatile Kurdish Question: Domestic and Foreign Considerations
Michael M. Gunter (Tennessee Technological University)
17. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK): Radical Democracy and the Right to Self-Determination Beyond the Nation-State
Joost Jongerden (Wageningen University)
18. The PKK, the Kurdish Movement, and the Emergence of Kurdish Cultural Policies in Turkey
Clémence Scalbert-Yücel (University of Exeter)
PART III
THE KURDISH QUESTION AND SYRIA
19. The Curious Question of the PYD-PKK Relationship
Zeynep Kaya (LSE) and Robert Lowe (LSE)
20. Kurdish Political Parties and the Syrian Uprising
Harriet Allsopp (independent scholar)
PART IV
THE KURDISH QUESTION AND IRAN
21. The Kurdish Conundrum and the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1979-2003
Nader Entessar (University of Southern Alabama)
22. Identities and Ethnic Hierarchy: The Kurdish Question Revisited in Iran
Olivier Grojean (Aix-en-Provence)
23. Fellow Arians and Muslim Brothers: Iranian Narratives on the Kurds
Walter Posch (Austrian National Defence Academy, Vienna)
PART V
THE KURDISH QUESTION AND IRAQ
24. The Kurdish Experience in Post-Saddam Iraq
Gareth Stansfield (University of Exeter)
25. Arabisation as Genocide: The Case of the Disputed Territories of Iraq
Mohammed Ihsan (University of Erbil)
26. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq's Higher Education Boom - A Gender Perspective
Katherine Ranharter (University of Exeter)
27. Water and Development in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Greg Shapland (University of Exeter)
28. Peace Education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Evolution and Limitations
Kelsey Shanks (University of Exeter)
29. The Iraqi Kurdish Response to the 'Islamic State': Political Leverage in Times of Crisis
Benjamin Isakhan (Deakin University)
30. In Pursuit of Friends: The Kurdistan Region's Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy
Renad Mansour (Carnegie - Beirut)
31. A Paradigm Shift in US-Kurdistan Region Relations Post-2014: The Evolution to a Strategic Partnership
Mohammed Shareef (University of Exeter)
32. Re-claiming Halabja
Nicole Watts (San Francisco State University)
33. Media, Political Culture, and the Shadows of the Militia War in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin)
34. Experiences of Honour Based Violence, and Moving Towards Action in Iraqi Kurdistan
Nazand Begikhani (University of Bristol) and Gill Hague (University of Bristol)
35. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Federal Constitution: A Perimeter Plinth of State Territorial Integrity or a Stepping Stone to Secession?
Francis Owtram (University of Exeter)
