Kurds in Turkey - Ethnographies of Heterogeneous Experiences

This ethnographic volume features fresh research by junior scholars of contemporary Kurdish studies. The contributions are assembled around four themes: women’s participation, paramilitary, space, and infrapolitics of resistance.

List of contents

Chapter 1: 'Mountain Life is Difficult but Beautiful!' - The gendered process of 'becoming free' in PKK education - Isabel Käser

Chapter 2: The Kurdish Women's Political Organizing from the feminist neo-institutionalist perspective - Lucie Drechselová

Chapter 3: The Emergence of Paramilitary Groups in Turkey in 1980s - Ayhan Isik

Chapter 4: Confession as disavowal: JITEM officers confessing to atrocities against Kurds during the 1990s - Yesim Yaprak Yildiz

Chapter 5: Accumulation by Dispossession as a Common Point in Urbanisation Politics in Diyarbakir - Suna Yilmaz

Chapter 6: Autonomous Spaces and Constructive Resistance in Northern Kurdistan: The Kurdish Movement and Its Experiments with Democratic Autonomy - Minoo Koefoed

Chapter 7: Challenging state borders: Smuggling as Kurdish infra-politics during "the years of silence" - Adnan Çelik

Chapter 8: Towards A Resistance Literature: The Struggle of Kurdish-Kurmanji Novel in Post 2000s - Davut Yesilmen

About the author

Lucie Drechselová is postdoctoral fellow at the Czech Academy of SciencesAdnan Çelik is postdoctoral fellow at Sciences Po Lille

Summary

This ethnographic volume features fresh research by junior scholars of contemporary Kurdish studies. The contributions are assembled around four themes: women’s participation, paramilitary, space, and infrapolitics of resistance.

Product details

• Authors: Adnan Drechselova Celik, Lucie Celik Drechselova
• Assisted by: Adnan Celik (Editor), Adnan Çelik (Editor), CELIK ADNAN (Editor), Lucie Drechselova (Editor), Lucie Drechselová (Editor), Drechselova Lucie (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781498575249
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7524-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations; Kurdish Societies, Politics, a
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations