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Is Hope More Precious than Victory?: The Failed Peace Process and Urban Warfare in the Kurdish Region of Turkey
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Harun Ercan Although scholarly attention on the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Syria has increased in recent years, structuralist analyses still dominate the understanding of politico-military developments in the context of the Kurdish question. This essay argues that grasping the causes behind...
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Democratic Economy Conference: An Introductory Note
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 211–222.
Published: 01 January 2016
... is
intended by the Kurdish movement as an announcement of its ethico-politi-
cal commitment to the democratization of the economy. Second, it provides
a broad orientation for the democratically organized self-governed bodies
(communes, councils, etc.) to conduct economic politics both against...
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Turkey’s Decline into (Civil) War Economy: From Neoliberal Populism to Corporate Nationalism
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (1): 41–59.
Published: 01 January 2019
...,” circumscribed by the structural limitations imposed on it by international finance and the global geopolitical matrix, navigated the sequences unleashed by the two revolutionary insurrections, the Arab Spring and the Kurdish movement for self-governance. Whether or not Erdoğan wins the June 2018 elections, he...
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The Return of the Oppressed: Notes on Kurdish Anti-colonialism
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 848–861.
Published: 01 October 2024
... resistance movements. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Kurdish anti-colonialism decolonization colonial violence Ottoman/Turkish-style colonization Kurdish nationalism Why do the oppressed need theory? Why isn't action enough for the oppressed...
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The Rise of Caesarism, or Erdoğan’s Way
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (1): 61–80.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Orhan Gazi Ertekin The state of emergency following the military uprising of July 15, 2016, revealed a process of multilayered and multi-actor crises in Turkey. The resistance and offenses of Kurdish, Islamist, and Socialist movements historically challenged the republic that situated them...
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Geopolitics of Inter-subaltern Colonialism and Gender: Challenging Methodological Dualism through the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Journey from Kurdistan to Iran
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 779–802.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Sara Kermanian By challenging postcolonial theory's “methodological dualism,” this article explores non‐Western intersocietal encounters and interactions that facilitated the vanguard role of the Kurdish region of Iran (Rojhelat) in the country's “woman, life, freedom” revolutionary movement...
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On the (Im)possibility of the Kurdish Queer
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 873–880.
Published: 01 October 2024
... through the intersection of these two organized political movements. Not everyone agreed. While the response to the special issue from academic and political circles was overwhelmingly positive, and a launch event with the Kurdish Gender Studies Network in January 2024 drew an appreciative audience...
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The Rojava Experience: Possibilities and Challenges of Building a Democratic Life
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 184–196.
Published: 01 January 2016
... within the Kurdish liberation movement in the 1990s, we interpret democratic autonomy as a new methodology that weds decolonization and national liberation with a strong critique of the state form and patriarchal capitalist modernity. We then discuss autonomy and democracy as distinct yet related moments...
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Fixers, Fieldwork, and Precarity: The Postcoloniality of Western Fieldwork on ISIS in Kurdistan
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 755–777.
Published: 01 October 2024
..., the new order,” with their only demand being that of more power from the former colonizers (Fanon [1961] 2001 : 46). Therefore, national consciousness, the base of the Kurdish movements, does not change the class-based division of society and the resulting inferiority complex, even after decolonization...
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“I Am Kurdish, My Homeland Is Kurdistan”: Excerpts from Selahattin Demirtaş’s Testimony before the Turkish Court
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 825–839.
Published: 01 October 2024
... be done by force. The political movement that we represent and in which I am involved argued that the governance model throughout Turkey should change. It advocated for restructuring the governance model in all of Turkey in a locally strengthened way, rather than a Kurdish-specific, territorial...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 655–664.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Mashuq Kurt; Nilay Özok-Gündoğan This special‐issue introduction highlights the burgeoning movement toward decolonizing Kurdish studies, outlining its challenges and opportunities within the academic landscape. Central to the authors’ discussion is the concept of the coloniality of power, which...
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The Politics of the Gezi Park Resistance: Against Memory and Identity
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (2): 427–436.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Turkish no longer needs
to be coded as a defect according to this perspective, then the concept of the
proper Turkish subject may now include speaking Kurdish as one’s mother
tongue. As a result, the Kurdish movement in Turkey today is inevitably
drawn into the sphere of a political discourse...
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Decolonizing Minds and Education: Critical Pedagogy and Epistemic Disobedience in Kurdistan
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 689–710.
Published: 01 October 2024
... sympathy or support for the mainstream Kurdish political movement in Turkey. This contrast, I would soon learn, pervaded every aspect of teaching and student life on campus. The university administration made deliberate efforts to prevent Kurdish students from organizing around student unions and clubs...
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Notes on Contributors
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 881–884.
Published: 01 October 2024
... journal of Kurdish studies. He is also conducting research on political violence, the history and theories of national liberation movements, anti-colonial literary theory, and the Armenian genocide. Through his writings and legal and academic endeavors, Aydınkaya continues to advocate for the recognition...
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Twenty Years of Feminist Engagement: Reflections on Practice
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 711–730.
Published: 01 October 2024
... , no. 3 : 783 – 90 . Al-Ali Nadja , and Pratt Nicola . 2011 . “ Between Nationalism and Women's Rights: The Kurdish Women's Movement in Iraq .” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 4 , no. 3 : 339 – 55 . Alinia Minoo . 2013 . Honor and Violence against Women...
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Anti-Kurdish Racism in Germany: Decolonial Perspectives on the German Education System
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 862–872.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of Racism among Kurds in Germany—Functions and Effects of (Not) Speaking About Anti‐Kurdish Racism,” the author frequently encounters instances of devaluation of Kurdish identities due to racialization and everyday invisibilization. The professional demands on educational institutions, on the other hand...
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Self-Defense as a Revolutionary Practice in Rojava, or How to Unmake the State
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 197–210.
Published: 01 January 2016
... a considerable time in
Syria, and it is here that he developed the first academies to train guerrillas
to fight for the Kurdish Liberation Movement (KLM).5 Although the PKK
was fighting primarily against Turkey at the time, a significant number of
Kurds from Syria joined the PKK and became leading...
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The Long Summer of Turkey: The Gezi Uprising and Its Historical Roots
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (2): 419–426.
Published: 01 April 2014
..., for the larger public, state violence was no
longer seen as legitimate. The Kurdish political movement has been waging
a struggle against the Turkish state for the last three decades. This struggle
has led to a long period of armed conflict, but also to the creation of a vibrant
Kurdish civil society...
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Kurdish Vernacular Learning as Indigenous Knowledge: Decolonizing Ottoman Cultural and Intellectual History
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 803–823.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Michiel Leezenberg This contribution explores in what ways the Kurdish experience may be called “colonial” and, by extension, what decolonizing Kurdish studies would or could amount to. Specifically, it explores whether and to what extent Kurdish vernacular learning may be qualified as “Indigenous...
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Nationalist Discourses in Turkey
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 433–451.
Published: 01 July 2003
..., the momentum of the Kurdish nationalist
movement in Turkey proved the pessimists right and gave the fundamen-
talist/essentialist factions the opportunity to raise their voices. With Tur-
key’s policies regarding the Kurdish issue restricted to the fanaticism of the
‘‘military solutionwhile its entire...
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