The Kurdish Model of Political Community: A Vision of National Liberation Defiant of the Nation-State (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781793600004)

The Kurdish Model of Political Community: A Vision of National Liberation Defiant of the Nation-State undertakes a task long due in Kurdish studies: addressing common misunderstandings about and outlining theoretical implications of Kurdish politics. Hanifi Baris develops his arguments with an historical examination and finds apathy towards and a resistance to state-building in Kurdistan. Accordingly, Baris argues, this tendency to establish self-government with distaste to state-building has enabled major Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria to develop a form of political community that constitutes a viable alternative to those based on theocratic, imperial and national sovereignty. Thus, Baris concludes, rather than being a conflict between competing nationalisms, the current Kurdish conflict in Turkey and Syria is between competing visions of political community.

Author: Hanifi Baris
ISBN-10: 1793600007
ISBN-13: 9781793600004
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2021
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2022