Front cover image for Activists in office : Kurdish politics and protest in Turkey

Activists in office : Kurdish politics and protest in Turkey

Nicole F. Watts sheds light not only on the particular situation of Kurds in Turkey, but also on the challenges, risks, and potential benefits for comparable movements operating in less-than-fully democratic contexts.
Print Book, English, 2010
University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2010
xxiv, 214 páginas : mapa ; 23 cm
9780295990491, 9780295990507, 029599049X, 0295990503
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Other routes of resistance
Early routes : conditions of Kurdish electoral mobilization
New collective challengers : the institutional trajectory of Turkey's first pro-Kurdish party
Resources of the system
Characteristics of coercion : obstructing access to resources
Producing competing truths
Creating a new Kurdish subject
Conclusions : assessing a challenger's impact