Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 901-917 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Middle Eastern Studies |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 13 Dec 2010 |