{"product_id":"kurds-in-dark-times-aya-alemdaroglu-9780815637707","title":"Kurds in Dark Times: New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. Kurds constitute about 20 percent of Turkey, the largest Kurdish population in the region. The history of the Kurds in Turkey is marked by state violence against them and decades of conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdish fighters. Although the continuous struggle of the Kurdish people is well known, and the political actors involved in the conflict have received much attention, an increasing wave of scholarship is being written from the vantage point of the Kurds themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlemdaroglu and Gek's volume develops a fresh approach by moving away from top-down Turkish nationalist macroanalyses to a microanalysis of how Kurds and Kurdistan as historical and ethnic categories were constructed from the bottom up. Contributors look beyond the politics of state actors to examine how Kurdish workers, women, youth, and political prisoners experience and resist marginalization, exclusion, and violence. \u003ci\u003eKurds in Dark Times\u003c\/i\u003e opens an essential window into the lives of Kurds by generating meaningful insights into the formal and informal ways of negotiating their power and place in Turkey; and therefore, it provides crucial perspectives for any endeavor to create peace and reconciliation in the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ay軋 Alemdaroglu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815637705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815637707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d","brand":"Ay軋 Alemdaroglu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44131837477119,"sku":"9780815637707","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b4e955e-97ee-4a65-a665-0262a8a0776a.jpg?v=1687476686","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kurds-in-dark-times-aya-alemdaroglu-9780815637707","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}