Contesting an exclusive citizenship regime: the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its electoral mobilisation in Batman in the late 1970s.

IF 1.8 2区 经济学 Q2 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Third World Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-07-01 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1080/01436597.2025.2518501
Joost Jongerden, Francis O'Connor
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Abstract

Repeated calls have been made to focus on the politics of political violence for a better understanding of the political fundamentals of an armed movement. In this article we look into the politics of the Kurdistan Workers Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, PKK) through its engagement in municipal politics in the late 1970s in Batman, then a rural town in the Kurdistan region in Turkey, which rapidly industrialised after the local discovery of oil. Using a citizenship analytical lens, this article makes two substantial contributions. The article challenges overly simplistic, linear narratives regarding the PKK's origins and its eventual embrace of violence. By analysing the PKK's electoral and representational politics in the late 1970s, it emphasises the political dynamics of that period rather than reinterpreting its emergence solely through the later insurgency. Empirically, the article illustrates how the Kurdish political movement's pursuit of representation directly challenged the ethnically exclusionary citizenship regime of the Turkish state.

20世纪70年代末,库尔德工人党(PKK)及其在巴特曼的选举动员,对排他性公民制度提出了质疑。
人们一再呼吁把重点放在政治暴力的政治上,以便更好地了解武装运动的政治基础。在本文中,我们通过20世纪70年代末库尔德工人党(Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, PKK)在巴特曼(Batman)的市政政治活动来研究它的政治活动。巴特曼当时是土耳其库尔德斯坦地区的一个乡村小镇,在当地发现石油后迅速实现了工业化。本文从公民身份的角度进行分析,做出了两个重大贡献。这篇文章挑战了关于库尔德工人党起源及其最终拥抱暴力的过于简单化的线性叙述。通过分析库尔德工人党在20世纪70年代末的选举和代议制政治,它强调了那个时期的政治动态,而不是仅仅通过后来的叛乱重新解释它的出现。从经验上看,这篇文章说明了库尔德政治运动对代表权的追求是如何直接挑战土耳其国家排外的公民制度的。
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Third World Quarterly
Third World Quarterly DEVELOPMENT STUDIES-
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4.10
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期刊介绍: Third World Quarterly ( TWQ ) is the leading journal of scholarship and policy in the field of international studies. For almost four decades it has set the agenda of the global debate on development discourses. As the most influential academic journal covering the emerging worlds, TWQ is at the forefront of analysis and commentary on fundamental issues of global concern. TWQ examines all the issues that affect the many Third Worlds and is not averse to publishing provocative and exploratory articles, especially if they have the merit of opening up emerging areas of research that have not been given sufficient attention. TWQ is a peer-reviewed journal that looks beyond strict "development studies", providing an alternative and over-arching reflective analysis of micro-economic and grassroot efforts of development practitioners and planners. It furnishes expert insight into crucial issues before they impinge upon global media attention. TWQ acts as an almanac linking the academic terrains of the various contemporary area studies - African, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern - in an interdisciplinary manner with the publication of informative, innovative and investigative articles. Contributions are rigorously assessed by regional experts.
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