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dc.contributor.authorRifai, Ola
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-23T16:17:42Z
dc.date.available2017-02-23T16:17:42Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-16
dc.identifier.citationRifai, O. (2016). The Kurdish identity; from banishment to empowerment. Syria Studies, 8(2), pp. 12-24.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2056-3175en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/syria/article/view/1377en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10354
dc.description.abstractIn The Kurdish identity; from Banishment to Empowerment, Ola Rifai explores one of the important manifestations of the Syrian Uprising, namely, how it has directly and indirectly influenced the manufacturing and perception of identity in Syria. Rifai focuses on the proliferation of Kurdish identities after 2011, and shows how, to a large extent, these identities were imposed from above by actors with very specific political agendas. Rifai further sheds light on how the Syrian regime interacted with these identities on the basis of security concerns, rather than on Baathist ideological principles. Various dynamics, as Rifai narrates, explain why the PYD’s vision of an exclusive Kurdish identity was far more empowered than visions of Kurdish identity that were more conciliatory or more willing to remain under some type of Syrian national framework. Though all of this can be traced back to the event of the Syrian Uprising, as with other similar outcomes, the foundations for all of this are far older than the Syrian Uprising and are seemingly the result of the failure of Syrian politicians from independence onwards to address minorities, both ethnic and religious, in a manner that is genuinely inclusive.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentre for Syrian Studies, School of International Relations, University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSyria Studiesen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectSyriaen_US
dc.subjectSyrian Uprisingen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectKurdsen_US
dc.subjectKurdistanen_US
dc.subject.lccDS92.S9en_US
dc.subject.lcshSyriaen_US
dc.titleThe Kurdish identity; from banishment to empowermenten_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.statusPeer revieweden_US


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