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Martin van Bruinessen ()
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Martin van Bruinessen: Utrecht University, Netherlands

Kurdish Studies, 2016, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-4

Abstract: The development of a field of studies such as our own, Kurdish studies, depends to a large extent on the existence of an institutional infrastructure of specialised academic departments, libraries, journals, etc. Only very few academic institutions in the world have a well-established tradition of Kurdish studies, and not surprisingly they are found in those countries that have had an imperial interest in Kurdistan: Russia, Great Britain and France. The general marginalisation of area studies in academia in favour of the more strictly discipline-oriented organisation of academic research has affected these established institutions too. The best specialised libraries in Europe are not in universities but in private Kurdish institutes in Paris, Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna, and they were established and funded by members of the Kurdish diaspora with incidental governmental support.

Keywords: Kurdish Studies; diaspora; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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