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This thesis theorizes the original concept of technologies of othering, and explores the forms such technologies have taken in the century-long oppression of the Kurds, who constitute the largest stateless nation in the Middle East. The research question asked was: by what methods were the Kurds, promised their own state after the First World War, divided, encapsulated within, and oppressed by four new nation-states created by, and in the interests of, Western imperial powers? Unlike other studies of the Kurds, I use Kurdish as well as Middle Eastern and Western texts to show how theories of nationalism, realism and Realpolitik, and the 'rules' of the modern international statesystem; and three ideologiesethno-nationalism, Baathism and Islamic fundamentalismconstituted the political technologies of othering used against the Kurds, directly and indirectly, in three of the states—Turkey, Iran and Iraq. Drawing on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Ellul and Foucault, I demonstrate that technique and nihilism are linked to the discourses and practices of 'othering' as used in the Middle East and internationally. I employ philosophic methods derived from Western critiques of modernity, and classical Islamic political thought and practice, to interpret the political and historic data regarding instances when the Kurds were 'othered', ranging from marginalization and persecution to attempted genocide. Actions of imperialism, and Middle Eastern reactions to them, I argue, produced many nihilistic ideologies that fed the technologies of othering used. The thesis also explores Kurdish texts showing their self-understandings as a people, and how they organized against state coercion whenever the opportunity arose. Nonetheless, so far the Kurds haven't defeated the awesome power of these technologies, nor overcome the tremendous forces of reactive nihilism. I show why the multiple

Nihilism and technologies of othering: the Kurds in Iran, Iraq and Turkey