Kurds in Turkey :

Kurds in Turkey : ethnographies of heterogeneous experiences / edited by Lucie Drechselova and Adnan Celik. - Lanham : Lexington Books, 2019. - 2019 p. ; 23 cm. - Kurdish societies, politics, and international relations . - Kurdish societies, politics, and international relations. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women's participation -- "Mountain life is difficult but beautiful!" : the gendered process of "becoming free" in PKK education / Isabel Käser -- The Kurdish women's political organizing from the feminist neo-institutionalist perspective / Lucie Drechselová -- Paramilitary -- The emergence of paramilitary groups in Turkey in 1980 / Ayhan Işık -- Confession as disavowal : JİTEM members confessing to atrocities against Kurds during the 1990s / Yeşim Yaprak Yıldız -- Space -- Accumulation by dispossession as a common point in urbanisation politics in Diyarbakir / Suna Yilmaz -- Autonomous spaces and constructive resistance in northern Kurdistan : the Kurdish movement and its experiments with democratic autonomy / Minoo Koefoed -- Infrapolitics of resistance -- Challenging state borders : smuggling as Kurdish infra-politics during "the years of silence" / Adnan Çelik -- Towards a resistance literature : the struggle of Kurdish-Kurmanji novel in post 2000s / Davut Yeşilmen -- Authors' biographies.

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.

9781498575249


Kurds--Politics and government--Turkey--20th century.
Kurds--Politics and government--Turkey--21st century.
Women, Kurdish--Political activity--Turkey.
Militia movements--Turkey.
Government, Resistance to--Turkey.

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