La questione curda vista dagli spalti: proteste e repressione oltre i confini

Abstract

In this article, we aim to analyze the relationship between the condition of the Kurdish population and the world of Kurdish protest starting from organized football fans' stands, highlighting the territorial connections that go beyond the football dimension and (imposed) borders. In fact, it happens that the stadium stands represent a social space of dissent against the dominant political arrangements (Fedele, 2021; Bifulco and Pirone, 2014) and that in the repression of the Amedspor fans, the metaphor of forced inclusion is realized. To analyze what happens, we consider Kurdistan as an 'international colony' (Beşikçi, 1991), as a nation divided between four different states. For the purpose of conducting our analysis, we will use the "border as a method" (Mezzadra and Neilson, 2013), as, since the border is a legal product that marks an act of power (Spíndola Zago, 2016), it allows us to investigate the power that establishes a hegemony over space.