Pastoralité in eastern Turkey
Chronicles of the Kurdish shepherds between tribal logic, nationalisms and heritage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9264161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michaël Thevenin (0000-0002-1861-2182, British Dietetic Association, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 102-2 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue de géographie alpine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-1121 • E-ISSN: 1760-7426 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/rga.2433 |
| OpenAlex | W2069185326 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
In this article, we will confront the pastoral practices of the Kurdish populations in eastern Turkey, which is a very ancient culture, to the heritage process in order to try to establish a pastoralité, a concept emerging in the French academic circles. Pastoral practices in eastern Turkey are characterised, like high mountains (pasture) shelters, by a great diversity due to geographical, historical and social contexts, but also to the recent establishment of the Turkish nation-state and Kurdish nationalism, the most striking trait of which is the persistence of tribal allegiance. We are witnessing an impossible standardisation of these practices and a heritage institutionalisation, although one that remains hypothetical considering how the different forces in presence play out. Stuck between three settings of representation - that of pastoral communities, those of Turkish or Kurdish nationalisms and those inherent to the internal logic of the heritage institutionalisation - pastoralism in the Anatolian East could be understood as a pastoralité defined as a resisting community, the territory being itself an actor of this resistance. In this form, the pastoralité would be an identitary construction. We would like to offer another reading, closer to a tool than to an ideology, and which can encompass both the geopolitical complexity of the Turkish land and what is at stake for the French: pastoralité could firstly be a pastoral concept and a resilience as well as a transformation field
Allegiance · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Geography · Ideology · Institutionalisation · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Turkish · Agricultural and Rural Development Research · Law · Ottoman Empire History and Society · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |