Module ARAM147 for 2024/5
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM147: The Kurds: History and Politics
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Bajalan, Djene, Karimi, Sara Kandi (2014) The Kurds and their History: New Perspectives. Special issue of Iranian Studies, 47 (5).
Baser, B.; Toivanen, M.; Zorlu, B. & Duman, Y. (eds.) (2018) Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies. Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field. Lexington Books.
Bozarslan, H.; Gunes, C., Yardigi, V. (eds.) (2021) The Cambridge History of the Kurds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McDowall, D. (1996). A Modern History of the Kurds, London: I.B. Tauris.
Meseilas, S. (1997). Kurdistan in the Shadow of history. New York : Random House.
Mojab, S. (2021) Women of Kurdistan: a historical and bibliographic study. London: Transnational Press London.
Ghassemlou, A. R. (1965). Kurdistan and the Kurds. Prague: Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
Gunter, M. M. (2011) [2004]. Historical Dictionary of the Kurds. Scarecrow press: Lanham and Oxford.
Kaya, Z. (2020) MappingKurdistan: territory, self-determination and nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schmidinger, T. (2018). Rojava: revolution, war, and the future of Syria’s Kurds. London: Pluto Press.
Tejel, J. G.; Sluglett, P.; Bocco, R.; Bozarslan, H. (ed.) (2012). Writing the modern historiography of Iraq. Historiographical and political challenges. World Scientific Publishing, Hackensack, London.
Vali, A. (2020). The Forgotten Years of Kurdish Nationalism in Iran. Palgrave Mac Millan.
van Bruinessen, Martin (1992), Agha, Sheikh and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan, Zed Books: London & New Jersey.
Watts, N. (2010). Activists in office. Kurdish politics and protest in Turkey, Seattle, University of Washington Press.
