The Kurdish Issue in Turkey by Zeynep Gambetti, Joost Jongerden - 9781138824157

Taylor & Francis

The Kurdish Issue in TurkeyA Spatial Perspective\nAuthor(s): Zeynep Gambetti, Joost Jongerden\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138824157, 978-1138824157\nSynopsis\nThis volume gives a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the Kurdish issue in Turkey from a spatial perspective that takes into account geographical variations in identity formation, exclusion and political mobilisation.\n\nAlthough analysis of Turkeys Kurdish issue from a spatial perspective is not new, spatial analyses are still relatively scarce. More often than not, Kurdish studies consist of time-centred work. In this book, the attention is shifted from outcome-oriented analysis of transformation in time towards a spatial analysis. The authors in this book discuss the spatial production of home, identity, work, in short, of being in the world. The contributions are based on the tacit avowal that the Kurdish question, in addition to being a quest.