Code
01DI0212
Duration
01 September 2012 → 30 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- History
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Social sciences
- Other economics and business
- Applied sociology
- Policy and administration
- Social psychology
- Social stratification
- Social theory and sociological methods
- Sociology of life course, family and health
- Other sociology and anthropology
- Citizenship, immigration and political inequality
- International and comparative politics
- Multilevel governance
- National politics
- Political behaviour
- Political organisations and institutions
- Political theory and methodology
- Public administration
- Other political science
Keywords
turkeys
PKK
social movements
identity politics
Kurds
ethno-nationalism
Project description
This study aims at understanding the 30-year long struggle of the Kurdish national movement in Turkey. In this sense, it examines the evolution of the PKK from an insurgent movement to a transnational social movement organization as well the emergence of Kurdish identiy politics as outcome of this movement. This research will be at junction of three areas: (ethno)-nationalism, social movements and identity politcs.