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Kurdish history textbooks: Building a nation-state within a nation-state

This article reviews the history and social studies textbooks used in Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) schools in terms of their contribution to the construction of the Kurdish/Kurdistani national identity.The article also examines how the KRG's views of the Other are expressed in these text...

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Main Author: Kirmanj, Sherko
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Published: Middle East Institute 2014
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Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/12561/
http://dx.doi.org/10.3751/68.3.12
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spelling my.uum.repo.125612014-11-11T03:55:02Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/12561/ Kurdish history textbooks: Building a nation-state within a nation-state Kirmanj, Sherko DS Asia This article reviews the history and social studies textbooks used in Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) schools in terms of their contribution to the construction of the Kurdish/Kurdistani national identity.The article also examines how the KRG's views of the Other are expressed in these textbooks in order to reveal the discourses, categories of differences, assumptions, and views about these concepts, as well as the attempts made through the textbooks to answer the question of what it means to be a Kurd or a Kurdistani.As with nation-building projects elsewhere, KRG school textbooks are part of a strategy to create an “imagined community,” and are intended to strengthen the process of creating a Kurdish/Kurdistani nation-state within an Iraqi nation-state. Middle East Institute 2014-06-01 Article PeerReviewed Kirmanj, Sherko (2014) Kurdish history textbooks: Building a nation-state within a nation-state. The Middle East Journal, 68 (3). pp. 367-384. ISSN 0026-3141 http://dx.doi.org/10.3751/68.3.12 doi:10.3751/68.3.12
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Kirmanj, Sherko
Kurdish history textbooks: Building a nation-state within a nation-state
description This article reviews the history and social studies textbooks used in Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) schools in terms of their contribution to the construction of the Kurdish/Kurdistani national identity.The article also examines how the KRG's views of the Other are expressed in these textbooks in order to reveal the discourses, categories of differences, assumptions, and views about these concepts, as well as the attempts made through the textbooks to answer the question of what it means to be a Kurd or a Kurdistani.As with nation-building projects elsewhere, KRG school textbooks are part of a strategy to create an “imagined community,” and are intended to strengthen the process of creating a Kurdish/Kurdistani nation-state within an Iraqi nation-state.
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