Beyond Language: Kurdish Language Activism in the Face of Colonial Language Governmentality

Demet Arpacık

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Beyond Language

Kurdish Language Activism in the Face of Colonial Language Governmentality

Demet Arpacık

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 125 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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Joshua A. Fishman Award winner 2021

This ethnographic work examines both the colonial language governmentality imposed by the Turkish state and the Kurdish language activism as a response to this system. Through a genealogical study, it calls for a reconsideration of the linguistic condition in Turkey as being more than nationalist, highlighting its foundation in intertwined ideologies of racism, imperialism, and colonialism. It then provides an analysis of new possibilities and directions led by the actors of the Kurdish language movement, which seeks to enhance not only the linguistic but also the socio-political condition of the Kurdish people by taking a "beyond language" approach. The work advances our thinking about language oppression and minority language activism.

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Demet Arpacık, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chapter 1 Kurds and Kurdistan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Chapter 2 Colonial language governmentality in Turkey and its relation to Euro-Colonial linguistics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
Chapter 3 Colonial governance of non-Turkish languages in Turkey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Chapter 4 Party, politics, and language: The genealogy of the anti-colonial Kurdish language movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Chapter 5 Liberal bracket in colonial history: Kurdish language politics during the peace negotiation process (2009–2015) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	188
Chapter 6 The split in the language sphere and the closing of the liberal bracket Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	228
Chapter 7 Decolonial education in Dibistanên Azad [Free Schools] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	264
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	302
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341

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eBook published on:

November 4, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783111143873

Hardcover published on:

November 4, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111139739

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10

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342

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1

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10

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111143873

eBook ISBN: 9783111143873

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111139739

Keywords for this book

Language Activism; Colonial Linguistics; Kurdish; Critical Pedagogy

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Researchers in Sociolinguistics, Kurdish Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Colonial Linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics.

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