Materials for the session on Feb 3 - part 02
Abstract
The Archive Problem: Ottoman archives document Kurdistan. British Mandate archives document Kurdistan. Turkish state archives document Kurdistan. Iraqi, Syrian, Iranian state archives document Kurdistan. But these archives don't document the same thing. They create different "Kurdistans" through what they record, how they categorize, which connections they trace, which movements they erase. Kurdish oral histories document something else entirely—not "Kurdistan" as a bounded entity, but netwo...
Fields of Study & Subjects
Digital and Traditional Archives Management
Middle East Politics and Society
Oral History
Memory
Narrative Analysis
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Hypotheses (OpenEdition)
- Publication date
- 3 February 2026