Nation-Building in Turkey and Morocco: Governing Kurdish and Berber Dissent

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Why do some ethnonational groups live peacefully with the states that govern them, whereas others develop into serious threats to state authority Through a comparative historical analysis, this book compares the evolution of Kurdish mobilization in Turkey with the Berber mobilization in Morocco by looking at the different nationbuilding strategies of the respective states Using a variety of sources, including archival documents, interviews, and memoirs, Senem Aslan emphasizes the varying levels of willingness and the varying capabilities of the Turkish and Moroccan states to intrude into their citizens' lives She argues that complex interactions at the ground levelwhere states have demanded changes in everyday behavior, such as how to dress, what language to speak, what names to give children, and more mundane practicesaccount for the nature of emerging stateminority relations By taking the local and informal interactions between state officials and citizens seriously, this study

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