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Book SynopsisThe Kurdish Model of Political Community: A Vision of National Liberation Defiant of the Nation-State undertakes a task long due in Kurdish studies: addressing common misunderstandings about and outlining theoretical implications of Kurdish politics. Hanifi Baris develops his arguments with an historical examination and finds apathy towards and a resistance to state-building in Kurdistan. Accordingly, Baris argues, this tendency to establish self-government with distaste to state-building has enabled major Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria to develop a form of political community that constitutes a viable alternative to those based on theocratic, imperial and national sovereignty. Thus, Baris concludes, rather than being a conflict between competing nationalisms, the current Kurdish conflict in Turkey and Syria is between competing visions of political community.
Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Autonomy within the State: Non-state Political Communities in Kurdistan
Chapter Three: Constitution-Making in the Shadow of the Founding Father
Chapter Four: Autonomy Within and Across Nation-States
Chapter Five: Conclusion
