Due to the colonial continuities encoded in postcolonial nation-states, formal decolonisation
reproduced new dominations rather than peaceful intergroup coexistence. Reflecting on the …

The Kurdish-led project of democratic confederalism in Rojava (north and north-east Syria)
has emerged as an unprecedented experience in eco-feminist and anti-capitalist direct …

On 17 June 2017, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, called
on pro-regime vigilantes to 'fire at will'or to act on their own discretion in putting the state's …

This paper introduces the Special Issue on Uneven and Combined Development (UCD). It
begins by briefly outlining the idea of UCD and reviewing its history–from its origins in the …

Abstract Since the 1979 Revolution, the Iranian state has adopted a sophisticated set of
policies to assimilate the Eastern Kurds. The Kurds are often the main target of the Iranian …

This article examines and further develops the relationship between the theory of uneven
and combined development (UCD), recently taken up by International Relations (IR) …

This article explores how nationhood was discursively constructed in early twentieth-century
Iran. While most studies concentrate on micro-national causes, this study complements this …

This paper reconceptualises the subaltern as a power-position based on Gramsci,
countering the postcolonial subject-positioning, to uncover inter-subaltern hierarchies …

The article discusses the geopolitical liminality of Kurdish politics and history. It explores the
dual function of Kurdistan's Taurus and Zagros mountains as a natural defense and source …

Existing accounts of Kurdish nationalism can be mapped onto the main theories of
nationalism, that is, primordialism, ethnosymbolism and modernism. These theories …