“Political-Cultural Domination and Identity: Dynamics of Collective Belonging and Nation-Building”
This forthcoming study investigates political-cultural domination and its impact on individual and collective identity in Kurdistan. Domination is reflected not only in formal structures but also in everyday practices. In Hawraman, Kurdistan, when a Persian individual fell from a tree, some bystanders blamed the tree and cut it down; had the person been Kurdish, the blame would likely have been directed at the individual instead. This real incident illustrates how domination reshapes systems of valuation and social perception, reproducing a sense of subordination.
The aim of this research is to collect and analyze empirical data in order to provide an academic framework for understanding the relationship between domination, identity, and nation-building — a framework that contributes to theory while clarifying mechanisms of resistance and cohesion under domination.
