Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
Isabel Käser is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She is also the Principal Investigator of a collaborative project between the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) titled “The Kurdistan Region of Iraq Post-ISIS: Youth, Art and Gender”, for which her team is looking into the intersections of feminist art and youth activism in Iraqi Kurdistan. Isabel gained her PhD at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS in London and her first book "The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities" has been published by Cambridge University Press (2021).
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Gender/Women's Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Kurdish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Syria
Iraq
Specialties
Gender, Sexuality, War, Feminist Art And Activism, Migration
Languages
German (native)
English (fluent)
French (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
Kurdish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2019
| Gender Studies
| SOAS
MPhil
| 2015
| Centre for Gender Studies
| SOAS
Abstracts
‘Irade’ – or obtaining ‘the will to resist’ in the Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Movement
Leaving the movement: former PKK militants and the remaking of post-revolutionary subjectivities
Claiming Spaces: Youth, Art and Gender in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Post-ISIS
