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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2 / 2022  
         
  Article:   ENGAGEMENT IN THE PKK AND “IDENTITY WORK” OF THREE GENERATIONS OF COMBATANTS / ENGAGEMENT DANS LE PKK ET « TRAVAIL IDENTITAIRE » DE TROIS GENERATIONS DE COMBATTANT.E.S.

Authors:  CAROLINE GUIBET LAFAYE.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbeuropaea.2022.2.05

Published Online: 2022-12-30
Published Print: 2022-12-30
pp. 101-153

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Engagement dans le PKK et travail identitaire de trois générations de combattant.e.s. People typically have multiple identities that vary in salience and pervasiveness. This identity results from a process of socialization and structures the individual behaviour. Identification with a group is the result of an alignment of personal and collective identities. In order to study this process of alignment, from a micro-sociological perspective, we conducted an empirical sociology survey among 63 activists of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK). In the light of the model developed by Snow and McAdam (2000) on identity work, we highlighted the prevalence, in terms of identity convergence, of identity research over identity appropriation, including in a holistic and so-called terrorist organization such as the PKK. We also emphasized the primacy of identity amplification in the processes of identity construction of these Kurdish combatants.

Keywords: PKK, “identity work”, armed political commitment, terrorism, collective identity.
 
         
     
         
         
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