The Kurdish Spring: State-society relations and dissent in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Speaker: Dr Nicole Watts, San Francisco State University
Chair: Dr Toby Dodge, LSE

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 18.30-- 20.00, Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building
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Dr Nicole Watts, who was in Sulaimaniya last spring for the 'Kurdish Spring', will discuss her ongoing research on dissent and campaigns for social and political change in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Recent publications by Dr Watts:

• "The Role of Symbolic Capital in Protest: State Society Relations and the Destruction of the Halabja Martyrs Monument in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq" Comparative Studies of South Africa, Asia and the Middle East  (2012) 32(1): 70-85
• Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey (University of Washington Press, 2011)
• "The Missing Moderate: Legitimacy Resources and pro-Kurdish Party Politics in Turkey" in The Kurdish Policy Imperative, ed. by Robert Lowe and Gareth Stansfield (Chatham House, 2010)
• "Re-Considering State-Society Dynamics in Turkey's Kurdish Southeast," European Journal of Turkish Studies 10 (2009)

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