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Beyond Language : Kurdish Language Activism in the Face of Colonial Language Governmentality / Demet Arpacık.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 125Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2024]Copyright date: 2025Description: 1 online resource (X, 342 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111139739
  • 9783111144399
  • 9783111143873
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 491.597 23/eng/20241111
LOC classification:
  • PK6901 .A77 2024
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Kurds and Kurdistan -- Chapter 2 Colonial language governmentality in Turkey and its relation to Euro-Colonial linguistics -- Chapter 3 Colonial governance of non-Turkish languages in Turkey -- Chapter 4 Party, politics, and language: The genealogy of the anti-colonial Kurdish language movement -- Chapter 5 Liberal bracket in colonial history: Kurdish language politics during the peace negotiation process (2009–2015) -- Chapter 6 The split in the language sphere and the closing of the liberal bracket -- Chapter 7 Decolonial education in Dibistanên Azad [Free Schools] -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Kurds and Kurdistan -- Chapter 2 Colonial language governmentality in Turkey and its relation to Euro-Colonial linguistics -- Chapter 3 Colonial governance of non-Turkish languages in Turkey -- Chapter 4 Party, politics, and language: The genealogy of the anti-colonial Kurdish language movement -- Chapter 5 Liberal bracket in colonial history: Kurdish language politics during the peace negotiation process (2009–2015) -- Chapter 6 The split in the language sphere and the closing of the liberal bracket -- Chapter 7 Decolonial education in Dibistanên Azad [Free Schools] -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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