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Beyond Feminism? Jineolojî and the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement

Politics & Gender, 2020
AbstractJineolojî, the women's science proposed and developed by the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement, has become central to its transnational organizing both in the Middle East and in Europe and the Americas. Activists in the Kurdish women's movement critique positivist and androcentric forms of knowledge production as well as liberal feminism.
Nadje Al-Ali, Isabel Käser
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Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement

2021
Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities is a pioneering text that examines the ideas about social ecology and communalism behind the evolving political structures in the Kurdish region. The collection evaluates practical green projects, including the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, Jinwar ...
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The Kurdish Nationalist Movement

2006
David Romano's 2006 book focuses on the Kurdish case to try and make sense of ethnic nationalist resurgence generally. In a world rent by a growing number of such conflicts, the questions posed about why, how and when such challenges to the state are mounted are becoming increasingly urgent.
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Kurdish Movements and Distributive Structures of Power: A Theoretical Model for Understanding the Rise and Fall of Kurdish Movements

2020
Many studies have been conducted on the Kurds and their movements that most of them have had historical dimensions or have applied limited theoretical variables, but have not been able to indicate the variables of the comprehensive factor in the rise and fall of movements in an explanatory theoretical model.
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The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement

2021
Amidst ongoing wars and insecurities, female fighters, politicians and activists of the Kurdish Freedom Movement are building a new political system that centres gender equality. Since the Rojava Revolution, the international focus has been especially on female fighters, a gaze that has often been essentialising and objectifying, brushing over a much ...
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Kurdish Women in Political Organizations: The Kurdish Movement and Pro-Kurdish Political Parties

2019
Both mainstream news about and research on women in the Kurdish movement have overwhelmingly focused on women in the PKK and their experiences in military units. Conversely, the political and social activism of Kurdish women in civilian organizations—whether political parties or civil society organizations—has largely been ignored until recently.
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The pro-Islamic challenge for the Kurdish movement

Dialectical Anthropology, 2013
Dagkapi Square in Diyarbakir, a Friday noon prayer time. Thousands of Kurds, who refused to pray behind the imams appointed by the Turkish state and listen to Turkish sermons prepared by the state’s Presidency of Religious Affairs (PRA), gathered to pray and listen to Kurdish sermons not in a mosque, but in the very square where Sheikh Said and his 46 ...
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The Kurdish Peasant Movement (1952–1953): A Missing Element of the Iranian Kurdish Struggle

Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 2019
AbstractThis paper investigates the socio-political and ideological aspects of the Peasant Uprising of 1952–1953, through a period where Kurdayeti (Kurdishness) was the dominating ideological force...
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Kurdish Movement in Turkey

This book examines the Kurdish movement in the context of total social movement theory. First tracing its origins as a conventionally nationalist movement, Elsa Sen draws upon Alan Touraine’s concept of a total social movement to argue that from 2000 to 2015 the Kurds in Turkey pursued a policy of engaging in a peace process, channeling energy into ...
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Kurdish women amidst the turkish state and the kurdish movement

Les femmes kurdes entre l'état turc et le mouvement kurde La présente recherche vise à comprendre les expériences de conflit des femmes dont les maris ont rejoint les forces de guérilla dans les rangs du Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, ou PKK). L'étude est basée sur ma recherche ethnographique de 30 mois
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