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Kurds in Turkey: Ethnographies of Heterogeneous Experiences is the newest contribution to the bourgeoning Kurdish Studies literature. The edited volume unites eight junior scholars who offer ethnographic studies based on their latest research. The chapters are clustered around four main headings: women's participation, paramilitary, space, and infrapolitics of resistance. Each heading assembles two chapters which are in dialog with each other and offer complementary and at times competing perspectives. All four headings correspond to the emerging domains of research in Kurdish studies. Authors share a micro-level focus and take extensive field work as the basis of their argument. In the wake of massive urban destructions and renewed warfare in the Kurdish region in Turkey, this volume also stakes a stance against the memoricide of the Kurdish municipal experience and cultural production.
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
