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Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement: Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK de Mustafa Kemal Topal

Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement: Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK: Kurdish Studies

Autor Mustafa Kemal Topal
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 feb 2024
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement. Designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the US, it seeks self-determination from Turkey. But this book examines the other changes it generates in society, focusing on how it has become a platform for shifts in gender politics through its women fighters. Based on fieldwork undertaken in Iraq, Syria and Europe - including in-depth interviews and participant observation within women's camps - the book examines Kurdish women fighters' motivations to join the PKK, as well as their personal life stories and views on gender, patriarchy, and ethnic minority experiences. This is the largest ethnographic study on the PKK to date and the book argues that in addition to seeking their nation's struggle for survival and a democratic society, Kurdish women fighters are driven by the prospect of improving conditions for themselves and for women across the entire region.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780755648368
ISBN-10: 0755648366
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Seria Kurdish Studies

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The author accessed women's camps in Iraq and Syria in war zones and observed Kurdish women's training, education program and lifestyle

Notă biografică

Mustafa Kemal Topal is Assistant Professor at the Roskilde University in Denmark, where he also received his PhD. He is also fellow at the Bergen University in Norway, havening been awarded the Independent Research Fund Denmark International's Postdoctoral Grant for his new project 'Kurdish Women's Democratic Experiment in Post-Conflict Northern Syria'.

Cuprins

IntroductionChapter 1: Women's childhood experiences of double otherness. Chapter 2: Detachments and Reorientations in a three-generational perspective. Chapter 3. Reconstructing Identity, Love, and Sexuality in the Context of MountainsChapter 4. Theorizing of Separation and Biological Body Chapter 5. Effects of Women's Combat Experiences on Understanding of Gendered BodyChapter 6. Women's post-Conflict Reflections and Implementation of the New SocietyChapter 7. Summary and Conclusion

Recenzii

Engaging with a vast body of literature on power, colonialism, and gender Topal offers an original and insightful study of the multifaceted experiences of women fighters and the evolution of gender relations within the Kurdish movement across generations. Pursuing an interpretivist approach informed by in-depth interviews and multiple site visits, his work represents the state-of-the art in qualitative methods in Kurdish studies.
This unique study gives us insights into the lives, perceptions, and goals of Kurdish women fighters. Theoretically inspired by Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Mustafa Topal shows, how the women fighters living in the mountains recreate themselves as free women in interaction with nature. His study of the political structures in autonomous Rojava reveals how the women fighters' gender ideas have influenced local Kurdish communities.
Based on extensive fieldwork in Iraq, Syria and Europe under particularly challenging and partly dangerous circumstances, this book provides a deep and touching analysis of women fighters' gender struggle in the Kurdish freedom movement seen from their own perspective. Topal's book shows how revolutionary the women fighters' gender struggle is for the PKK and for the broader freedom movement as such and how it has inspired women in large parts of the world.