This book presents a theoretical framework to study dissident ethnic movements' imagination of
world politics with a special focus on the PKK as a case study. Dissident ethnic movements are
not only a challenge to the existing hegemonic power but they also produce an alternative
closed society based on different ethnic imagination. Instead of taking the armed PKK movement
as a pure resistant this book approaches contemporary Kurdish nationalism led by the PKK as a
counter-hegemonic with a narrative that entails the emergence of a new kind of identity and
sense of belonging through which the PKK has been able to exercise its power. This book is an
attempt to go beyond resistance-oriented approach unveiling the two faces of the PKK's
representation of world politics: its transformative effect on the Kurds and its exclusionary
function towards traditional and alternative Kurdish subjects institutions.
