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Author Fawaz, Ahmed Abdel-Hafez, 1976- author.

Title Opportunity, identity, and resources in ethnic mobilization : the Iraqi Kurds and the Abkhaz of Georgia / Ahmed Fawaz.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 229 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- 1. Ethnic mobilisation: basic themes -- 2. Ethnic mobilisation: theoretical framework -- 3. Ethnic identity politicisation and ethnic mobilisation -- 4. Ethnic mobilisation and political opportunity structure -- 5. Resources mobilisation and ethnic mobilisation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary This book examines case studies of the Kurds in Iraq and the Abkhaz in Georgia to explore how ethnic identities become politicized by states and political entrepreneurs, leading to mobilization of ethnic populations. Through analysis of these cases, it provides a new theoretical framework to examine the process of ethnic mobilization.
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Subject Kurds -- Iraq -- Government relations.
Kurds.
Iraq.
Abkhazians -- Georgia (Republic) -- Government relations.
Abkhazians.
Georgia (Republic)
Minorities -- Political activity -- Iraq -- Kurdistān.
Minorities -- Political activity.
Iraq -- Kurdistān.
Minorities -- Political activity -- Georgia (Republic)
Nationalism -- Iraq -- Kurdistān.
Nationalism.
Nationalism -- Georgia (Republic) -- Abkhazia.
Georgia (Republic) -- Abkhazia.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Iraq.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Georgia (Republic)
Iraq -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Georgia (Republic) -- Ethnic relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Kurds -- Government relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Fawaz, Ahmed Abdel-Hafez, 1976- Opportunity, identity, and resources in ethnic mobilization. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2017] 9781498534000 (DLC) 2017009349
ISBN 9781498534017 (electronic book)
1498534015 (electronic book)
9781498534000 (hardcover)