EAN: 9783030160685

MINORITIES IN WEST ASIA AND NORTH AFRICA THE ...

This book investigates the forgotten years of Kurdish nationalism in Iran  from the fall of the
Kurdish republic to the advent of the Iranian revolution. An original and path-breaking
investigation of the period  it sheds light not only on the historical specificity of the
phenomenon of nationalism in exile  but also on the political processes and practices defining
the development of Kurdish nationalism in the post-revolutionary era. Although nationalist
landmarks such as the Kurdish republic in 1946 and the resurgence of the movement in the
revolutionary conjuncture of 1978-79 have attracted the attention of historians and social
scientists in recent years  little is known about the three decades of Kurdish nationalism in
exile between these two events. This analysis draws on contemporary poststructuralist theory to
question the concept of the minority in democratic and constitutional theory  arguing that it
is an effect of the discursive linkage between sovereign power and the dominant
ethnic-linguistic identity in the nation-state. This text will appeal to a wide academic
audience ranging from the fields of Kurdish  Iranian and Middle East Studies to ethnicity 
nationalism  government  and political science.

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