Narratives of statelessness and poltical otherness : Kurdish and Palestinian experiences / Barzoo Eliassi.
2021
K7128.S7 E45 2021
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Title
Narratives of statelessness and poltical otherness : Kurdish and Palestinian experiences / Barzoo Eliassi.
ISBN
9783030766986 (electronic bk.)
3030766985 (electronic bk.)
9783030766979 (hardback)
3030766977 (hardback)
3030766985 (electronic bk.)
9783030766979 (hardback)
3030766977 (hardback)
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-76698-6 doi
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K7128.S7 E45 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.08/3
320.956
320.956
Summary
"This book argues that citizenship is an inadequate solution to the problem of statelessness based on a critical investigation of the lived experiences of Kurdish and Palestinian diasporas in western Europe. It examines how statelessness affects identity formations, homelessness, belonging, non-belonging, otherness, voices, status, (non)recognition, (dis)respect, (in)visibility and presence in the uneven world of nation-states. It also demonstrates that the undoing of non-sovereign identities subjection to structural subalternization and everyday inferiorization requires rights in excess of the mere acquisition of juridical citizenship, which tends to assume national sameness. That assumption in turn involves sovereign practices of denial and assimilation of ethnic alterity. The book therefore highlights the necessity of de-ethnicizing and decolonizing unitary nation-states that are based on the politico-cultural supremacy of a single, "core" ethnicity as the sovereign legislator of the rules and regimes of national belonging and un-belonging. It therefore broaches questions of "majority" and "minority" mobility, nationalism, home-making, equality, difference and universalism in the context of the nation-state and illustrates how stateless peoples such as Kurds and Palestinians endure and challenge their subordinate position in a hierarchical (geo- )political order and how in so doing remain bound by political otherness"-- Provided by the publisher.
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Minorities in West Asia and North Africa.
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Table of Contents
Theorizing statelessness and stateless diasporas
The nation-state crafting of majorities and minorities
Defining, embracing and challenging (state)lessness
Politics of home and 'statesickness' : perils and promises
Marked groups and hierarchies of citizenship in authoritarian and liberal democratic states
The weight of assimilation and the confines of resistance in diaspora
Critique and dissent as a transnational obligation : diasporic appraisals of the Kurdistan region of Iraq
Seeing as the stateless in a world of nation-states.
The nation-state crafting of majorities and minorities
Defining, embracing and challenging (state)lessness
Politics of home and 'statesickness' : perils and promises
Marked groups and hierarchies of citizenship in authoritarian and liberal democratic states
The weight of assimilation and the confines of resistance in diaspora
Critique and dissent as a transnational obligation : diasporic appraisals of the Kurdistan region of Iraq
Seeing as the stateless in a world of nation-states.