Abstract

This paper reconceptualises the subaltern as a power-position based on Gramsci, countering the postcolonial subject-positioning, to uncover inter-subaltern hierarchies. Postcolonial nationalist discourse perpetuates a static West/non-West dichotomy, obscuring dominations within the ‘non-West’. A Gramscian perspective allows for understanding subalternity as relative power and as an objective condition for undoing subalternity, enabling an examination of hegemony and subalternity beyond the West/non-West dichotomy. The emergence of the Kurdish third way through the Rojava Revolution and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), rooted in Kurdish subaltern consciousness, illustrates this perspective by challenging Arab and Turkish nationalist hegemonies and state dominations in Syria and Turkey.

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