Beyond Language
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Beyond Language

Kurdish Language Activism in the Face of Colonial Language Governmentality

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Beyond Language

Kurdish Language Activism in the Face of Colonial Language Governmentality

About this book

This ethnographic work examines both the colonial language governmentality imposed by the Turkish state and the Kurdish language activism as a response to this system. Through a genealogical study, it calls for a reconsideration of the linguistic condition in Turkey as being more than nationalist, highlighting its foundation in intertwined ideologies of racism, imperialism, and colonialism. It then provides an analysis of new possibilities and directions led by the actors of the Kurdish language movement, which seeks to enhance not only the linguistic but also the socio-political condition of the Kurdish people by taking a "beyond language" approach. The work advances our thinking about language oppression and minority language activism.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 Kurds and Kurdistan
  7. Chapter 2 Colonial language governmentality in Turkey and its relation to Euro-Colonial linguistics
  8. Chapter 3 Colonial governance of non-Turkish languages in Turkey
  9. Chapter 4 Party, politics, and language: The genealogy of the anti-colonial Kurdish language movement
  10. Chapter 5 Liberal bracket in colonial history: Kurdish language politics during the peace negotiation process (2009–2015)
  11. Chapter 6 The split in the language sphere and the closing of the liberal bracket
  12. Chapter 7 Decolonial education in Dibistanên Azad [Free Schools]
  13. Conclusion
  14. Index