The Kurdish Question Revisited

Introduction Gareth Stansfield (University of Exeter) and Mohammed Shareef (University of Exeter) PART I REFLECTIONS ON IDENTITY, CULTURE, AND THE NATION 1. Social Movement Theory and Political Mobilization in Kurdistan David Romano (Missouri State University) 2. Religion Among the Kurds: Between Naqshbandi Sufism and IS Salafism Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam) 3. New Perspectives on Writing the History of the Kurds in Iraq, Syria and Turkey: A History and State of the Art Assessment Jordi Tejel (Graduate Institute of Geneva) 4. Politics of Memory: Kurdish Ethnic Identity and the Role of Collective Forgetting Hakan Özo?lu (University of Central Florida) 5. 'Being in Time': The Kurdish Movement and Quests of Universal Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS Paris) 6. Separated but Connected: The Synergic Effects in the Kurdistan Sub-System Ofra Bengio (Tel Aviv University) 7. Fact and Fiction in Modern Kurdish Narrative Discourse Hashem Ahmadzadeh (University of Stockholm) 8. Political and Everyday Religion in Kurdistan Diane E. King (University of Kentucky) 9. The Shifting Borders of Conflict, Difference, and Oppression: Kurdish Folklore Revisited Christine Allison (University of Exeter) 10. Kurdish Music in Armenia: The Music of the Yezidis Nahro Zagros (University of Soran) PART II THE KURDISH QUESTION AND TURKEY 11. The Sheikh Ubeidullah Rebellion of 1880 Sabri Ates (Southern Methodist University) 12. Journalism Beyond Borders: The Bedirkhans and the First Kurdish Gazette, 1898-1902 Janet Klein (University of Akron) 13. Mobilisation of Kurds in Turkey during the 1980s and the 1990s Cengiz Gunes (The Open University) 14. Turkey's Kurdish Problems, The Kurds' Turkish Problems Bill Park (King's College London) 15. The Transformation of Turkey's Kurdish Question Henri Barkey (The Wilson Center) 16. Contrasting Turkish Paradigms Towards the Volatile Kurdish Question: Domestic and Foreign Considerations Michael M. Gunter (Tennessee Technological University) 17. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK): Radical Democracy and the Right to Self-Determination Beyond the Nation-State Joost Jongerden (Wageningen University) 18. The PKK, the Kurdish Movement, and the Emergence of Kurdish Cultural Policies in Turkey Clémence Scalbert-Yücel (University of Exeter) PART III THE KURDISH QUESTION AND SYRIA 19. The Curious Question of the PYD-PKK Relationship Zeynep Kaya (LSE) and Robert Lowe (LSE) 20. Kurdish Political Parties and the Syrian Uprising Harriet Allsopp (independent scholar) PART IV THE KURDISH QUESTION AND IRAN 21. The Kurdish Conundrum and the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1979-2003 Nader Entessar (University of Southern Alabama) 22. Identities and Ethnic Hierarchy: The Kurdish Question Revisited in Iran Olivier Grojean (Aix-en-Provence) 23. Fellow Arians and Muslim Brothers: Iranian Narratives on the Kurds Walter Posch (Austrian National Defence Academy, Vienna) PART V THE KURDISH QUESTION AND IRAQ 24. The Kurdish Experience in Post-Saddam Iraq Gareth Stansfield (University of Exeter) 25. Arabisation as Genocide: The Case of the Disputed Territories of Iraq Mohammed Ihsan (University of Erbil) 26. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq's Higher Education Boom - A Gender Perspective Katherine Ranharter (University of Exeter) 27. Water and Development in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Greg Shapland (University of Exeter) 28. Peace Education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Evolution and Limitations Kelsey Shanks (University of Exeter) 29. The Iraqi Kurdish Response to the 'Islamic State': Political Leverage in Times of Crisis Benjamin Isakhan (Deakin University) 30. In Pursuit of Friends: The Kurdistan Region's Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy Renad Mansour (Carnegie - Beirut) 31. A Paradigm Shift in US-Kurdistan Region Relations Post-2014: The Evolution to a Strategic Partnership Mohammed Shareef (University of Exeter) 32. Re-claiming Halabja Nicole Watts (San Francisco State University) 33. Media, Political Culture, and the Shadows of the Militia War in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin) 34. Experiences of Honour Based Violence, and Moving Towards Action in Iraqi Kurdistan Nazand Begikhani (University of Bristol) and Gill Hague (University of Bristol) 35. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Federal Constitution: A Perimeter Plinth of State Territorial Integrity or a Stepping Stone to Secession? Francis Owtram (University of Exeter)