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  • Stateless

    The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile

    by Talar Chahinian, Figure Foundation ...
    In Stateless, Talar Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond. Chahinian highlights two specific time periods—post WW I Paris and Post WW II Beirut—to trace the ways in which literature developed in each diaspora. In Paris, a literary ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power

    Collective Identity in the Transnational 20th Century

    Edited by Talar Chahinian, Sossie Kasbarian, Tsolin Nalbantian ...
    Series series Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World
    From genocide, forced displacement, and emigration, to the gradual establishment of sedentary and rooted global communities, how has the Armenian diaspora formed and maintained a sense of collective identity? This book explores the richness and magnitude of the Armenian experience through the 20th century to examine how Armenian diaspora elites and their institutions emerged in the post-genocide ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

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    Searching for Home in Exile

    by Sylvia Angelique Alajaji ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji shows how the boundaries of Armenian music and identity have been continually redrawn: from the identification of folk music with an emergent Armenian nationalism under Ottoman rule to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Building Free Life

    Dialogues with Ocalan

    Edited by International Initiative ...
    From Socrates to Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned philosophers have marked the history of thought and changed how we view power and politics. From his solitary jail cell, Abdullah Ocalan has penned daringly innovative works that give profuse evidence of his position as one of the most significant thinkers of our day. His prison writings have mobilsed tens of thousands of people and inspired a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Turkey's Kurds

    A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Ocalan

    by Ali Kemal Özcan ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly translated material on Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's long-time leader; it explores the nature and the organizational working of the party, from its growth in the late 1970s to its recent shrinkage. A variety of issues are addressed including:* the views ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey

    The Other Side of Tolerance

    by Marcy Brink-Danan ...
    Turkey is famed for a history of tolerance toward minorities, and there is a growing nostalgia for the "Ottoman mosaic." In this richly detailed study, Marcy Brink-Danan examines what it means for Jews to live as a tolerated minority in contemporary Istanbul. Often portrayed as the "good minority," Jews in Turkey celebrate their long history in the region, yet they are subject to discrimination ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • When Greeks think about Turks

    The View from Anthropology

    Edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos ...
    Series series South European Society and Politics
    Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors examine the opinions of diverse social groups, such as ordinary middle-class citizens, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Critical Approaches To Armenian Identity In The 21st Century

    Vulnerability, Resilience and Transformation

    by (ed.) Altuğ Yılmaz ...
    Series series Conference Books
    At a time when our identities are becoming less firmly fixed and more fluid, the idea of a single absolute identity is giving way to the idea that identities that can be shaped by time, space and the individual. As such, traditional approaches to Armenian identity are also being re-examined, and the issue is being Explored from new perspectives and through interdisciplinary research.Held in ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Persophilia

    Persian Culture on the Global Scene

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    From the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to Persia for inspiration, finding there a rich cultural counterpoint and frame of reference. Interest in all things Persian was no passing fancy but an ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Azan on the Moon

    Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway

    by Till Mostowlansky ...
    Series Book 26 - Central Eurasia in Context
    Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan and China. The highway initially brought sentiments of disconnection and hardship, followed by ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Refugees and Knowledge Production

    Europe's Past and Present

    Edited by Magdalena Kmak, Heta Björklund ...
    Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary ‘refugee scholarship’, this volume challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge emerging in the context of migration and mobility. With critical attention to the meaning, production and ... Read more

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  • Political Violence and Kurds in Turkey

    Fragmentations, Mobilizations, Participations & Repertoires

    by Mehmet Orhan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    The Kurdish conflict is an acknowledged long-standing issue in the Middle East, and the emergence of radical Kurdish nationalist movements in the 20th century played a decisive role in the evolution of political violence.Political Violence and Kurds in Turkey examines how this political violence impacts Kurds in contemporary Turkey, and explores the circumstances that move human beings to violent ... Read more

    $62.99 USD