ILCAA Joint Research Project

Everyday Forms of Ethnicity and Religiosity in Kurdistan: Comparative Inquiries into Social Organization of Cultural Difference and Crossborder Interaction in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey (jrp000305)

Keywords

• Everyday Forms
• Ethnicity
• Religiosity
• Crossborder Interaction
• Kurdistan
• Iran
• Iraq
• Turkey

Areas

• West Asia

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2024–March, 2027

This project combines ethnographic/sociological field research methods with historical documentary investigation to inquire into sociocultural and sociopolitical dynamics within the border regions in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. It aims to conduct theoretically informed investigations into everyday forms of ethnicity and religiosity in the divided but interconnected Kurdistan regions. Besides comparative historical analysis, boundary processual and network (or structural) analyses are among the primary theoretical paradigms that this project seeks to build itself on.

Members

Coordinator

• Yasuyuki MATSUNAGA

ILCAA Staff

• Masato IIZUKA (Co-Coordinator)
• Emi GOTO

Joint Researchers

• Mostafa KHALILI (Co-Coordinator)
• Keiko SAKAI
• Mari NUKII
• Akiko YOSHIOKA
• Vakkas COLAK
• Sohrab AHMADIAN
• Mehmet Mashuq KURT
• Farhad BAYANI

Outputs

Meetings

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 2 Nov 2024 17:00–19:30
• Venue: 301, Online meeting
• Language: English

• 17:00

  Opening

  17:10 M. Mashuq Kurt, the Royal Holloway, University of London

  Presentation “Radical Habitus and Political Violence in the Middle East: A Case Study of Youth Radicalisation across Turkish-Syrian Border Zones”

  18:50

  General Discussion

  19:30

  Closing

  Contact: matsunaga[at]tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Fri 11 Oct 2024 16:00–19:00
• Venue: 301
• Language: English

• 16:00 Presentation (Yasuyuki Matsunaga and Sohrab Ahmadian, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “The Transformation of Religiosity in Twentieth-Century Ouramanat: A Boundary Dynamics Approach”

  16:40 Andreas Wimmer (Columbia University)

  Comment

  17:00 Presentation Mostafa Khalili (Kyoto University)

  “Contentious Boundary-work in Kurdistan: The Tri-Border Region of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey”

  17:40 Andreas Wimmer (Columbia University)

  Comment

  18:00

  General Discussion

  19:00

  Closing

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Tue 16 Jul 2024 16:00–17:30
• Venue: 301, Online meeting
• Language: English

• 16:00 Introduction of the project (Yasuyuki Matsunaga)

  “Critical Introduction to Analytical Approaches to Boundary Dynamics”

  16:30 Presentation (Mostafa Khalili)

  “Contentious Borderwork in Kurdistan: Dynamics of Cross-Border Kurdish Identity in the Tri-Border Region of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey”

  17:00

  Discussion

  17:30

  Closing

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