Description
Book SynopsisNicole F. Watts sheds light not only on the particular situation of Kurds in Turkey, but also on the challenges, risks, and potential benefits for comparable movements operating in less-than-fully democratic contexts.
Trade Review"An original and well-informed book that makes a most welcome contribution to the literature on Kurdish politics in particular and nationalism and democratic politics more generally. . . . an innovative, sharp, and valuable study."
-- Michael A. Reynolds * Political Science Quarterly *
"Most of the recently published books on the Kurdish problem in Turkey focus on the armed struggle and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Watts, however, offers a much-appreciated alternative approach."
-- Michael M. Gunter * Insight Turkey *
"Watts' book is embedded in a solid theoretical paradigm that shed light on the four major Kurdish nationalist movements in Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Summing up: Highly recommended."
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Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Other Routes of Resistance
1. Early Routes: Conditions of Kurdish Electoral Mobilization
2. New Collective Challengers: The Institutional Trajectory of Turkey’s First Pro-Kurdish Party
3. Resources of the System
4. Characteristics of Coercion: Obstructing Access to Resources
5. Producing Competing Truths
6. Creating a New Kurdish Subject
Conclusions: Assessing a Challenger’s Impact
Notes
References
Index
