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Kurdish Women’s Success in Rojava
Abstract
Kurdish women’s success in Rojava The Kurdish women are developing and implementing their own ideals, including ideals for gender, in the process of constructing a new system of self-government for Northern Syria/ Rojava in this region’s transition from war to peace. In this context, the presentation seeks to understand how women's resistance and their pursuit of freedom is carried out in general post-conflict contexts, and how Kurdish did women manage to implement their women’s liberation ideals in post-conf Rojava. Based on my fieldwork in Rojava from 2018, 2019 and autumn 2022, in the form of observations and interviews with Kurdish and non-Kurdish informants, this paper will examine which ideals and thoughts, Kurdish women’s organisations in the post-conflict period develop, in their attempt to become active participants in political and societal activities with the purpose of creating a democratic form of government. Contrasting women’s disappearance from influence in liberation movements in post-conflict periods and areas, Kurdish women seem to have contributed to and influenced a more radical and tenacious subversion of societal structures and norms. This success requires further investigation. To be able to do that, I pull on the new social movement’s perspective (Della Porta, Donatella & Diani, Mario 2006) and gender theories (Judith Butler 1990; Karen Barad 1998; Sara Ahmed 2004) to examine the complex interaction between individual motivations, collective dynamics, and the greater political and social contexts. Thereby, it will be possible to investigate how women create a collective and political form of protest from below, and experience a development of solidarity among themselves in relation to other actors, including political and public authorities of all genders. It also articulates focus points for assessing how these women may overcome the challenges they experience, how they build their political agendas over time and how they implement their values and norms while establishing democracy.
Discipline
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Geographic Area
Kurdistan
Syria
Turkey
Sub Area
None