Environmentalism in Iranian Kurdistan

Causes and Conditions for Its Securitisation

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ID5680928
AutoresAllan Hassaniyan (0000-0002-0868-844X, Centre for Kurdish Studies, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume20
Fascículo3
Páginas355-378
Data de publicação2020-05-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoConflict Security and Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1467-8802 • E-ISSN: 1478-1174
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14678802.2020.1769344
OpenAlexW3034324963
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas18

Since the late 1990s, Iranian Kurdistan has hosted a wide range of NGOs, engaging in different sociocultural activities. Within this development, establishing environmental associations has been a noteworthy trend, to the extent that almost every city of Iranian Kurdistan has its own environmental society. Even though Kurdish environmental societies have been established according to Iranian law and regulations, conducting environmental activities has been shown to be a risky affair, resulting in imprisonment, assassination and other unpredictable consequences for activists. This paper argues that the Iranian government exercises a securitised approach to environmentalism in the country’s Kurdistan region. This study investigates the factors underlying the securitisation of Kurdish environmentalism

Environmental protection · Environmental security · Environmentalism · Geography · Imprisonment · Islam · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Transboundary Water Resource Management