A01=Elsa Tulin Sen
Author_Elsa Tulin Sen
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Kurdistan Workers' Party
Kurds of Turkey
PKK
social movement theory
Product details
- ISBN 9780755644087
- Weight: 462g
- Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines the Kurdish movement in the context of total social movement theory. First tracing its origins as a conventionally nationalist movement, Elsa Sen draws upon Alain Touraine’s concept of a total social movement to argue that from 2000 to 2015 the Kurds in Turkey pursued a policy of engaging in a peace process, channeling energy into civil society activism and electoral campaigns, and promoting an inclusive understanding of national identity for all the components of Turkish society – not just the Kurds – in a hypothetically fully functioning democracy. Both theoretically informed and drawing upon empirical research in the form of interviews with Kurdish and Turkish activists, non-activists and political representatives, the book provides a new perspective on contemporary Kurdish politics as oscillating between nationalist and social movement paradigms, with the recent decline of the latter due to the resumption of military action by the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party after 2015.
Elsa Tulin Sen holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from King's College London. She is currently teaching political science at the Institut Catholique de Paris and is a visiting research fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.
