Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey : Islamism, violence and the state /

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Author / Creator:Kurt, Mehmet, 1982- author.
Imprint:London : Pluto Press, 2017.
Description:1 online resource (x, 188 pages)
Language:English
Series:State crime
State crime (Pluto Press)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11397923
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ISBN:9781786800374
1786800373
0745399347
9780745399348
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Summary:An academic insider's account of the Islamist social movement Kurdish Hizbullah.
Other form:Print version: 0745399347 9780745399348
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Historical Overview of Hizbullah
  • Theory, data, and methodology
  • The historical and sociological conditions of Hizbullah's emergence
  • Imagining the ummah from the provinces: the establishment of Hizbullah
  • Ten years of violence
  • Hizbullah's 'transformation' from armed organisation to social movement
  • 2 The 'Grounded' Dimensions of Hizbullah as Islamist Organisation and Social Movement
  • Hizbullah, the individual, and daily life
  • Social segregation, minimal homogeneities, and the language of violence
  • Group belonging, religious ideology, and ethnic identity: different forms of identity within Hizbullah
  • Theoretical abstractions and conclusions
  • 3 The Construction of Social Memory in the Stories and Novels of Hizbullah
  • Social memory, history, and discourse
  • Uncle Bekir, Xalet, and others: the culture of devotion and the fedais of Islam
  • 'Þehadet (martyrdom) is a call to the generations, to the ages': the cult of martyrdom in the discourse of Hizbullah
  • Mürtet, taðut, and the Jew: the representation of Hizbullah's 'others' in stories and novels
  • Hizbullah self-perception and self-representation in stories and novels
  • Medrese-i Yusufiye: the representation of prison and prison identity.