Nation and Class in the History of the Kurdish Movement

In: Middle East Today Series

Abstract

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About This Book -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- Kurdish Organisations and Institutions -- Non-Kurdish Organisations and Institutions -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Nationalism and the Kurdish Question -- The Kurds and Kurdistan -- The Limits of Nationalism Studies -- Studying Nationalism and Class -- Methodology and Methods -- The Structure of the Book -- Bibliography -- 2 Feudal Nationalism in Kurdistan (1918-1946) -- Kurdistan in the Late Ottoman Period -- Feudal Nationalism in Post-Ottoman Kurdistan -- Kurdish Revolts in Kemalist Turkey -- Kurdish Revolts in Hashemite Iraq -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Colonialism, Rural Conflict and Kurdish Uprising in Iraq (1946-1991) -- The Social Structure of Colonial Iraq -- The Iraqi Revolution of 1958 -- Rural Conflict and Kurdish Uprising -- The Cold War and the Collapse of the Kurdish Revolution -- Iraq's Two Kurdish Nationalisms -- War, Genocide and Liberation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 The Class Structure of Kurdish Self-Rule in Iraq (1991-2014) -- Liberation and Civil War -- Urbanisation and Dependence -- Warlords and Chiefs: The Formation of a New Ruling Class -- The 2003 Invasion of Iraq and the Unification of the KRG -- The Kurdish Economic Boom and Its Contradictions -- The Promises of Kurdish Crude -- Subaltern Classes and Opposition in a Rentier (Quasi-)State -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5 The Crisis of Kurdish Nationalism in Iraq (2014-2018) -- War and Economic Crisis -- Protest and Political Crisis -- The Evolving Power Structure of the KRG -- External Relations and Domestic Rule -- The 2017 Independence Referendum -- The Crisis of Kurdish Nationalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6 The Kurdish Question in Turkey (1946-1987) -- The Kurds in the Kemalist Republic -- The 'Agha-State' Alliance.