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The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement
2021Amidst 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
2019Both 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, 2013Dagkapi 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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Geography of resistance: rugged terrain and the dynamics of Kurdish National Movement in Iran [PDF]
Third World QuarterlyInternational audienceExisting literature on the Kurdish National Movement in Iran largely overlooks its spatial and geographical dimensions, focusing instead on historical and socio-political dynamics.
Bagheri, Sahar
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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 moisopenaire +1 more source
Disinformation of the Kurdish Political Movements on the Kurdish Family System and Traumatized Youth
2018Kurdish women as a manifestation of modernization/democratization, doesnot have a sociological structure that is suitable for family,religion/religiosity and child-rearing style. Because; despite the fact thatthe Kurds have been familiar with Islam since immemorial times and that, theheads of Kurdish mothers have been covered and a Qur'an has been
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