LEADER 03119nam 2200505 450 001 9910504306203321 005 20230918181729.0 010 $a952-369-043-4 035 $a(CKB)5590000000629409 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000629409 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72299 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000629409 100 $a20221004d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKobane generation $eKurdish diaspora mobilising in France /$fMari Toivanen 210 $aHelsinki$cHelsinki University Press$d2021 210 1$aFinland :$cHelsinki University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (294 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a952-369-042-6 330 $aA small Kurdish city located in northern Syria, Kobane, became symbolically significant when ISIS laid siege to the city between September 2014 and January 2015. This pivotal moment in the fight against ISIS threw the international spotlight on the Kurds. The Kobane Generation analyses how Kurdish diaspora communities mobilised in France after the breakout of the Syrian civil war and political unrest in Turkey and Iraq in the 2010s. Tens of thousands of people, mostly but not exclusively diaspora Kurds, demonstrated in major European capitals, expressed their solidarity with Kobane, and engaged in transnational political activism towards Kurdistan. In this book, Mari Toivanen discusses a series of critical events that led to different forms of transnational participation towards Kurdistan. The focus of this book is particularly on how diaspora mobilisations became visible among the second generation, the descendants of Kurdish migrants. The book addresses important questions, such as why second-generation members felt the need to mobilise and what kind of transnational participation this led to. How did the transnational participation and political activism of the second generation differ from that of their parents, and is such activism simply diasporic or also related to more global changes in political activism? The Kobane Generation offers important insights on the generational dynamics of political mobilisations and their significance to understanding diaspora contributions. More broadly, it sheds light on second-generation political activism beyond the diaspora context, analysing it in relation to global transformations in political subjectivities. 517 $aKobane Generation 606 $aKurdish diaspora 606 $aKurds 610 $aPolitical mobilisation and activism 610 $aSecond generation 610 $aMigration 610 $aKurdish 610 $aTransnationalism 610 $aDiaspora 615 0$aKurdish diaspora. 615 0$aKurds. 676 $a305.8 700 $aToivanen$b Mari$01261022 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910504306203321 996 $aKobane generation$92927247 997 $aUNINA