Asaad Khani; Akbar Zare Shahabadi
Abstract
Historical narratives and theoretical justifications have placed the central sign of "Kurdishness" in an idolized and transcendental conceptual position, So that the review of this ...
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Historical narratives and theoretical justifications have placed the central sign of "Kurdishness" in an idolized and transcendental conceptual position, So that the review of this phenomenon itself has just been neglected; The present study is about to investigate the changes of the objectification of "Kurdishness" from the Kurdish local governments to the rise of the modern state; To this end, with a radical critique of the approaches of primordialism, ethnocentrism and modernism-constructivism and taking a discourse perspective, the developments of Kurdish identity will be examined and the discourse formulations of such a phenomenon will be clarified. The research method was Foucault's discourse analysis and the method of selecting documents have beeb on purposeful sampling. The findings of the study indicate that the previous epistemological order had a linguistic-ethnic connotation that with the penetration of changes and developments such as First World War and subsequent centralizing power of the government on the verge of emergence, identification mechanisms are placed in the field of politics and find meaning within such a field. In fact, according to the findings of this study, it can be said that before the world war, as a breaking point, the linguistic-religious and ethnic community represented the Kurdish identity, and after that, it takes a social-politicized form.
