The Kurds of Damascus in the 1930s
Development of a Politics of Ethnicity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10279746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Thomas White (0000-0003-0833-784X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 901-917 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle Eastern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-3206 • E-ISSN: 1743-7881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00263206.2010.520413 |
| OpenAlex | W2019726236 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In the 1930s, certain Kurds in Damascus mobilized in support of Kurds from the Jazira, the remote north-east of Syria (then under French mandate), who were demanding the establishment there of a Kurdish autonomous zone. Why did they do this? Rather than assuming that it was a political action flowing from a self-evident sense of Kurdish identity, this article explores the micropolitics of Damascus under French rule, and the effect of the development of the nation-state form in Syria, to account for the origins of a new politics of ethnicity
Development economics · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Mandate · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |