White, B. T. (2010) The Kurds of Damascus in the 1930s: development of a politics of ethnicity. Middle Eastern Studies, 46(6), pp. 901-917.
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Abstract
In the 1930s, certain Kurds in Damascus mobilized in support of Kurds from the Jazira, the remote north-east of Syria (then under French mandate), who were demanding the establishment there of a Kurdish autonomous zone. Why did they do this? Rather than assuming that it was a political action flowing from a self-evident sense of Kurdish identity, this article explores the micropolitics of Damascus under French rule, and the effect of the development of the nation-state form in Syria, to account for the origins of a new politics of ethnicity.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | White, Dr Benjamin Thomas |
| Authors: | White, B. T. |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History |
| Journal Name: | Middle Eastern Studies |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISSN: | 0026-3206 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1743-7881 |
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