Thread by @yungneocon

I read a piece the other day about ‘diasporas’, snd it starts by saying that the origin of the word is the Jewish diaspora, and later it defines the term a specific way & says ‘the Jewish diaspora is technically not a diaspora’ lol

That’s because it defines a diaspora as something like the dispersed negation of a nation, and they define a nation in a very typological way, it kind of reminded me of the book Stalin plagiarized on the national question (shown below)

So because of this, the Jewish & Romani diaspora were disqualified, Armenia’s only became a technical diaspora post hoc with the establishment of Armenia, etc.

The paper isn’t bad, it’s actually a critique & critical application of transnationalism & diaspora theory, to Kurdish life, and it admits the inapplicability begs revision, but then salvages it through the Weberian notion of ideal type