• DOI:10.1515/ijsl-2012-0050
Corpus ID: 144567934

Modernity and the linguistic genocide of Kurds in Turkey

@inproceedings{Fernandes2012ModernityAT,
  title={Modernity and the linguistic genocide of Kurds in Turkey},
  author={D. Fernandes},
  year={2012}
}

• D. Fernandes
• Published 2012
• Sociology

Abstract Zygmunt Bauman, Alexander Laban Hilton and Paul Havemann, amongst others, have argued that genocide is intimately linked to modernity. Modern discourses on development, modernization and western science as well as key meta-narratives of modernity (advancing the teleological myth of progress and civilization), “gardener's visions” and the very categorization and standardization of national languages (crucial to the biopolitical formation of global populations under the system of modern… Expand

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