Reciting Colonial Scripts: Colonialism, Globalization and Democracy in the Decolonized Middle East

Alkadry, Mohamad G.

doi:10.1080/10841806.2002.11029379

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“…There are opportunities to build upon nascent literatures and to widen the circle of voices. This includes literatures that explore the exclusion of indigenous public administration (e.g., Althaus, 2020Althaus, , 2022 and Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu administrative systems (e.g., Alkadry, 2002;Drechsler, 2013;Koujaenak, 2019;Tummala, 1996). It may also include understanding administrative systems within autocratic regimes and their many parallels to how democracies administrate as well as their (more frequently researched) differences.…”

Section: Problems Of "What Is Unsaid": Methodological Whiteness Histo...mentioning

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Interrogating hegemonic embraces: Representative bureaucracy, methodological Whiteness, and non‐West exclusions

Moloney

Sanabria-Pulido

Demircioğlu

2022

Public Administration Review

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The United States' racial history infrequently defines the representativeness of bureaucracies outside of the United States. This article explores how selective historical memories and insufficiently critical concept importations limit disciplinary understandings. We articulate how policy transfer assumptions, narrow administrative histories, methodological Whiteness, and incomplete considerations of non‐West administration alter our understanding of what is or is not representative bureaucracy. We encourage scholars to recall how concepts like representative bureaucracy may lack exact comparability outside the West and to be open to its potential alteration by contextual circumstances. The implications for further exploration of the representative bureaucracy concept and the challenges for pedagogy are also discussed. Evidence for Practice West‐derived hegemonic understandings of the public administration discipline limit the development of public administration practice and scholarship outside the West. Insufficient historical and comparative circumspection is a frequent output of West‐based scholars seeking to implement their concepts in non‐West administrations. The discipline and practice of public administration may increase its global dialogues by conversing with non‐West actors and recognizing the limitations of Western data and theories. Like many administrative concepts, the representative bureaucracy concept as developed in the West may not operate similarly in other contexts.

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Section: Problems Of "What Is Unsaid": Methodological Whiteness Histo...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Interrogating hegemonic embraces: Representative bureaucracy, methodological Whiteness, and non‐West exclusions

Moloney

Sanabria-Pulido

Demircioğlu

2022

Public Administration Review

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“…On the other hand, whilst the general frame of the concept of indigeneity maintains its divergence in the African and Asian contexts (Kingsbury 1998), the indigenous peoples of the Middle East are more complicated and have not been even given proper attention. Mohamad G. Alkadry (2002) argues that the deliberate practice of undermining the notion of indigenous people of the Middle East led to the emergence of artificial nation-states, which in turn created challenges for the democratisation process of the region. In contrast to the oriental image of the Middle East propagated by the West, which stereotypes the peoples and cultures of the region as backward and mystic, the Middle East is very diverse.…”

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Indigeneity Discourse within Kurdish Political Movement

Unal¹

2017

SCU

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This research looks at the indigenous, aspect of the Kurds and how indigenousness is expressed within the Kurdish political movement that has been paid limited attention. As this research addresses the differences between these two notions, it will be making a significant contribution on the indigenousness of Kurds that have been either widely seen as ethnic minority in the Middle East or their existence have been denied. I aim to draw scholarly attention to indigeneity discourse to address, in particular, the self-determination claim that is considered the most debated claim of indigenous peoples as self-determination, which is in the Kurdish context, one of the key demand of the Kurdish struggle is also defined as 'democratic autonomy/democratic confederalism' that was recognised by the United Nations in 2007 as one of the key rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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“…The struggle of the Kurds (for over a century) and other indigenous peoples of the Middle East have received very little scholarly attention in terms of their indigenous identity. Alkadry (2002) argues that the deliberate practice of undermining the notion of indigenous people of the Middle East led to the emergence of artificial nation-states, which created challenges for the democratization process in the region.…”

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Ji Zimanê Dayîkê Wêdetir: Kurdî Wekî Zimanekî Herêmî û Xwecih

Unal¹

2021

The Journal of Mesopotamian Studies

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The association between language and territory is particularly significant in terms of indigenousness. Therefore, the argument of this paper is to examine this aspect of the Kurdish language through the interpretation of the Kurdish political movement in Turkey based on self-identification, an essential component of indigeneity. Since the 1990s, the Kurdish political movement has been demanding mother-tongue rights with the growing grassroots support. This study examines pro-Kurdish political party programs, statements/press releases, and interviews with deputies of the HDP, current parliamentary party. The article explores acquiring Kurdish as a native language by Kurds and non-Kurds in the region, mainly through mothers, homes, and the community environment. The process of acquiring the Kurdish language varies according to how individuals interact with the local Kurdish community, such as marrying into Kurdish families, systematic settlement, and growing up in the region. Whilst Kurdish is regarded as the mother language of the Kurds by Kurds and non-Kurds members of the Kurdish political movement in Turkey, this article draws further attention to the regional and local aspects of Kurdish, including its natural learning process of non-Kurds within the region.

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Reciting Colonial Scripts: Colonialism, Globalization and Democracy in the Decolonized Middle East

Cited by 9 publications

References 45 publications

Interrogating hegemonic embraces: Representative bureaucracy, methodological Whiteness, and non‐West exclusions

Interrogating hegemonic embraces: Representative bureaucracy, methodological Whiteness, and non‐West exclusions

Indigeneity Discourse within Kurdish Political Movement

Ji Zimanê Dayîkê Wêdetir: Kurdî Wekî Zimanekî Herêmî û Xwecih

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