... imagination. Doing so, the author argues, puts theory and visions of democracy under productive scrutiny, stretching them in critical directions. The article concludes that an investment in or curiosity for Kurdish queer studies is needed to complicate our understanding of the history and politics...

...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...

... of the Muslim” as terroristic might make sense in the US, but in the context of Turkey, we are faced with a Sunni government that has dubbed most Kurds, LGBT activists, and academics for peace terrorists simply because they opposed the war waged on the Kurdish territories (Savcı 2021 ). Erdoğan's claims...

... . Forthcoming. “ David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities .” boundary 2 51 ,no. 4 . Dirik Dilar . 2022 . The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice . London : Pluto . Douzinas Costas . 2007 . Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy...

..., and my anonymous reviewers. 1 The maps, interviews, and genealogical charts drawn upon in this article were pro- duced as part of a comparative study exploring Palestinian and Kurdish conceptual- izations of statelessness and diasporic identity and belonging in three countries...