Les constructions de l'identité kurde sous l'influence de la ' connexion kurdo-française ' au Levant (1930-1946)

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ID2631472
AutoresJordi Tejel (0000-0002-2029-6975, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, autor de correspondencia), Jordi Tejel Gorgas
Año2006
Volumen5
Número5
Fecha de publicación2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean journal of Turkish studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1773-0546 • E-ISSN: 1773-0546
EditorialOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/ejts.751
OpenAlexW1526587063
IdiomaFR
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas12

Starting with the study of Orientalism in the interwar period, this paper focuses on when, why and how the Kurdish elite was engaged in constructing a viable concept of Kurdish identity. Because of the developments in the Middle East, this task of construction of an ‘imagined community’ – addressing the kurmanji speakers – took place under the influence of France, which became a mandatory power in Syria. The collaboration between French agents and Kurdish intellectuals brought about textual representations which could at best both inspire an inner Kurdish identification and enhance the image of Kurds as they were perceived in the West. However, this making of Kurdish identity, marked by an extreme process of social closure, had a significant consequence: the ‘Westernizing Kurdish elites’ had to come to inhabit a social and symbolic community that differed dramatically from the community inhabited by traditional elites (sheikhs and tribal chieftains) and non-elites

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