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Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien
Kurdologie bzw. kurdische Studien meint die systematische Auseinandersetzung mit sozialwissenschaftlichen ebenso wie mit philologischen, historischen und künstlerischen Fragestellungen. Sie umfasst die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit Themen, die das historische kurdische Siedlungsgebiet (Kurdistan) sowie die kurdische Migration, insbesondere nach Europa, betreffen. Das von der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Kurdologie / Europäisches Zentrum für Das von der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Kurdologie / Europäisches Zentrum für Kurdische Studien herausgegebene Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien bietet eine interdisziplinäre und internationale Plattform, die wissensch...
Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien (Ausgabe 2/2014)
Der zweite Band des Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien, der im Auftrag der Österreichischen Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kurdologie / Europäisches Zentrum für kurdische Studien herausgegeben wird, hat den Schwerpunkt: Die Geschichte von Kurdischen Studien und Kurdologie. Nationale Methodologien und transnationale Verflechtungen. Seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhundert wurden Kurdische Studien in Russland und in verschiedenen mittel- und nordeuropäischen Ländern in Angriff genommen. Die vielversprechenden Entwicklungen fanden jedoch nach dem ersten Weltkrieg oft ein jähes Ende. Generell kann festgestellt werden, dass die Geschichte der Kurdischen Studien seit den Anfängen im 19. Jahr...
Kurdish Studies Archive
Kurdish Studies Archive publishes the content of volumes 1 to 10 of Kurdish Studies. This interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal was dedicated to publishing high-quality research and scholarship. Since 2023 the journal has been continued as the new Kurdish Studies Journal, published by Brill, and focuses on research, scholarship, and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidisciplinary fashion covering a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, economics, history, society, gender, minorities, politics, health, law, environment, language, media, culture, arts, and education.
EFieldnotes
Examines how anthropological fieldwork has been affected by technological shifts in the 25 years since the 1990 publication of Fieldnotes : the making of anthropology, edited by Roger Sanjek, published by Cornell University Press.
Politische Identität-Ethnizität-Geschlecht
Cinur Ghaderi zeigt die Veränderungen von Identitäten und Wertvorstellungen von politisch aktiven MigrantInnen, die aus einer Konfliktregion kommen. Im Fokus stehen ihre Selbstverortungen und der Wandel ihrer politisierten Identität. Sie macht multiple Formen der Identifizierung sichtbar und zeigt eine enorme Heterogenität sowie deutliche Differenzierungen am Beispiel kurdischer Ethnizitätsimaginationen und Geschlechterentwürfen. Zugleich erlauben die Daten limitierte Verallgemeinerungen, aus denen sich vier divergierende Strategien der Selbstverortung generieren lassen. Diese Strategietypen zeigen: Die Neuorientierung der politischen Identität in der Migration führt zu differenten Verortungsstrategien, die die biographische Kontinuität und eine Neupositionierung im neuen sozialen Raum ermöglichen und die verbunden sind mit spezifischen Werthaltungen in Bezug auf Ethnizität und Geschlecht.
The Kurds and US Foreign Policy
This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US–Kurdish relations and their interaction with domestic, regional and global politics. Using the Kurdish issue to explore the nature of the engagement between international powers and weaker non-state entities, the author analyses the existence of an interactive US relationship with the Kurds of Iraq. Drawing on governmental archives and interviews with political figures both in Northern Iraq and the United States, the author places the case study within a broader International Relations context. The conceptual framework centres on the inter-relations between actors (both state and non-state) and structures of material and ideational ki...
Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage
'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several ‘honor’-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du’a Khalil Aswad, and campaigns against 'honor'-based violence by Kurdish feminists have drawn international attention to this phenomenon within Kurdish communities. Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage provides a description of ‘honor’-based violence that focuses upon the structure of the family rather than the perpetrator’s culture. The author, Joanne Payton, argues that within societies primarily organized by familial and marital connections, women’s ‘honor’ is a form of symbolic capital within a ‘political economy’ in which marriage organizes intergroup connections. Drawing on statistical analysis of original data contextualized with historical and anthropological readings, Payton explores forms of marriage and their relationship to ‘honor’, sketching changing norms around the familial control of women from agrarian/pastoral roots to the contemporary era.
Between Muslims
Within the broad contours of Islamic traditions, Muslims are enjoined to fast during the month of Ramadan, they are invited to a disciplined practice of prayer, and they are offered the Quran as the divine revelation in the most beautiful verbal form. But what happens if Muslims choose not to fast, or give up prayer, or if the Quran's beauty seems inaccessible? When Muslims do not take up the path of piety, what happens to their relationships with more devout Muslims who are neighbors, friends, and kin? Between Muslims provides an ethnographic account of Iraqi Kurdish Muslims who turn away from devotional piety yet remain intimately engaged with Islamic traditions and with other Muslims. Andrew Bush offers a new way to understand religious difference in Islam, rejecting simple stereotypes about ethnic or sectarian identities. Integrating textual analysis of poetry, sermons, and Islamic history into accounts of everyday life in Iraqi Kurdistan, Between Muslims illuminates the interplay of attraction and aversion to Islam among ordinary Muslims.
A Potential Kurdistan
The name “Kurdistan” has a long and curious history but it did not become politicized or contentious until the 20th century, particularly after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of new states that incorporated Kurdistan – understood as the “land of the Kurds” – in their new borders. Today the term has received renewed attention as it no longer just signifies an innocuous geographical term or a nationalist dream; it is the name of the political entity in northern Iraq that has many features of statehood but is not, in fact, a state. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) is a curious entity indeed; it looks like a state, it acts like a state, but it is not certified ...
The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation
The Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, life stories, and live performances offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics and the contingencies of state borders. Decades of oppression have deeply politicized and moralized cultural and musical production. Through in-depth ethnographic analysis Hamelink highlights the variety of personal and social narratives within a society in turmoil. Set within the larger global stories of modernity, nationalism, and Orientalism, this study reflects on different ideas about what it means to create a Kurdish home.
