La production de l’Homme nouveau au sein du PKK

Grojean, Olivier

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“…14.See Grojean (2008) citing the Bonn Internationalism Working Group (https://www.arbeitskreis-internationalismus.de). …”

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Leaving the PKK: Toward a process-oriented model of disengagement

Lafaye

2022

Violence: An International Journal

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While the involvement in terrorist organizations and social movements has generated a plethora of literature, little work exists on the exit from these two types of collectives. In order to grasp the plurality of factors involved in these processes, we based ourselves on an empirical sociological survey of 64 activists of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK). This party experienced a major wave of departures from the guerrilla movement in the early 2000s. The micro-sociological study of desistance trajectories make it possible to develop a relevant explanatory model of disengagement combining attention to diachronicity, the identification of micro-level turning points and meso-level windows of opportunity. After recalling the conditions under which the survey was carried out, we will show how desistance brings into play a certain relationship to time, key moments which, in the case of the PKK, concern not so much state repression as the internal dysfunctions of the party, as well as the “possibilities” that open up for the actors, either during moments of the party restructuraction or in civilian life.

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Leaving the PKK: Toward a process-oriented model of disengagement

Lafaye

2022

Violence: An International Journal

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“…This led him to develop a critique of the traditional familial attachments and gender relations in terms of 'old Kurdishness' (which effectively extended his more traditional leftist critique of tribal power structures based on inherited leadership and land-ownership). This old Kurdishness is depicted as a position from which each individual is supposed to liberate him or herself in order to create the 'new' and 'free' Kurdishness, as has been elaborated by Grojean (2008). The discourse on women's liberation was reinforced in the 1990s, through the active participation of women in the manifestations of popular protest, the guerilla organization and political parties.…”

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Understanding today’s Kurdish movement: Leftist heritage, martyrdom, democracy and gender

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2012

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“…It was known for the strategic use of violence, although it has been suggested that this use of violence was instrumental and rational, owing to the narrow political space in Turkey and lack of alternative platform for political expression (Bozarslan 2004: 23). However, the organisation has gone through a significant change in the new millennium (Akkaya & Jongerden 2012;Casier & Jongerden 2012;Grojean 2008). Indeed, Akkaya and Jongerden (2011) suggest that the PKK has reinvented itself in the 2000s, from a 'national liberation struggle' to a project of radical democracy, based on the rejection of the state.…”

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The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France

Toivanen

2021

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A small Kurdish city located in northern Syria, Kobane, became symbolically significant when ISIS laid siege to the city between September 2014 and January 2015. This pivotal moment in the fight against ISIS threw the international spotlight on the Kurds. The Kobane Generation analyses how Kurdish diaspora communities mobilised in France after the breakout of the Syrian civil war and political unrest in Turkey and Iraq in the 2010s. Tens of thousands of people, mostly but not exclusively diaspora Kurds, demonstrated in major European capitals, expressed their solidarity with Kobane, and engaged in transnational political activism towards Kurdistan. In this book, Mari Toivanen discusses a series of critical events that led to different forms of transnational participation towards Kurdistan. The focus of this book is particularly on how diaspora mobilisations became visible among the second generation, the descendants of Kurdish migrants. The book addresses important questions, such as why second-generation members felt the need to mobilise and what kind of transnational participation this led to. How did the transnational participation and political activism of the second generation differ from that of their parents, and is such activism simply diasporic or also related to more global changes in political activism? The Kobane Generation offers important insights on the generational dynamics of political mobilisations and their significance to understanding diaspora contributions. More broadly, it sheds light on second-generation political activism beyond the diaspora context, analysing it in relation to global transformations in political subjectivities. Mari Toivanen (PhD) currently works as Academy Research Fellow at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. She has conducted ethnographic research on a wide range of migration-related topics, focusing on diaspora mobilisation, transnational connections and activities, second generation migrants, and questions of identity and belonging.

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La production de l’Homme nouveau au sein du PKK

Abstract: La production de l'Homme nouveau au sein du PKK

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

Leaving the PKK: Toward a process-oriented model of disengagement

Leaving the PKK: Toward a process-oriented model of disengagement

Understanding today’s Kurdish movement: Leftist heritage, martyrdom, democracy and gender

The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France

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