TY - BOOK ID - 14480287 TI - The PKK-Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Regional Politics : During and After the Cold War PY - 2017 SN - 3319422197 3319422189 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Political science. KW - Middle East KW - Russia KW - Europe, Eastern KW - World politics. KW - Political Science and International Relations. KW - Political History. KW - History of the Middle East. KW - Russian, Soviet, and East European History. KW - Middle Eastern Politics. KW - Russian and Post-Soviet Politics. KW - History. KW - Politics and government. KW - Kurds. KW - Kurds KW - Nationalism KW - Nation-building KW - Ethnic identity. KW - Government relations. KW - History KW - Social aspects. KW - Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê. KW - Partiya Karkere Kürdistan KW - PKK KW - Kurdish Workers' Party KW - Worker's Party of Kurdistan KW - Apocular (Organization) KW - Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans KW - Partiya Karkerén Kürdistan KW - Ergatiko Komma tou Kourdistan KW - Kurdistan Isci Partisi KW - Partito kurdo dei lavoratori KW - Partito comunista kurdo KW - Partî Kirêkaranî Kurdistan KW - KİP KW - Ḥizb al-ʻUmmāl al-Kūrdistānī KW - Kongreya Azadî û Demokrasiya Kurdistan KW - Turkey KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Stabilization and reconstruction (International relations) KW - State-building KW - Political development KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Ethnology KW - Iranians KW - Middle East-History. KW - Russia-History. KW - Middle East-Politics and governm. KW - Russia-Politics and government. KW - Colonialism KW - Global politics KW - International politics KW - Political history KW - World history KW - Eastern question KW - Geopolitics KW - International organization KW - Middle East—History. KW - Russia—History. KW - Europe, Eastern—History. KW - Middle East—Politics and government. KW - Russia—Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14480287 AB - 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. ER -