Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds

Omer Tekdemir is Lecturer in Political Economy at Coventry University London. He is a co-editor of the open-access journal, New Middle Eastern Studies, and the co-convener of International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia working group of the British International Studies Association (BISA).

• Introduction 1. Methodology within the Kurdish Narrative 2. The Political Economy Origins of Kurds in the Ottoman Empire 3. Kurdish Moral Economy: Historical Perspectives on Embeddedness 4. Counter-Hegemonic Society in the Republic of Turkey 5. Passive Revolution: Constructing Institutional Politics 6. National Identity: Many Kurds in Agonistic Pluralism 7. Articulating an Alternative Discourse in the EU-ised Sphere 8. A Kurdish Model: Embeddedness, Radical Democracy and Populism