2014/07/14 by Sherko Kirmanj · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Turkey's Politics and Society #Political Conflict and Governance #Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics #State (computer science) #Political science #Public administration #Sociology #Computer science
paper · doi:10.3751/68.3.12
openalex publication_date 2014/07/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/23
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.