{"id":6699,"date":"2020-05-20T20:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.cas.bg\/event\/fellow-seminar-42\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T20:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:15:54","slug":"fellow-seminar-42","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/event\/fellow-seminar-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p align=\"justify\">\nDr. Ina Merdjanova will present her research proposal on the topic: &quot;The Kurdish Women&#39;s Movement and the Struggle for Peace in Turkey&quot; on 26 April 2018 (Thursday) at 16:30h.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<strong>Summary:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\nMy research looks at the Kurdish women&#39;s struggles for gender equality at the intersection of two diverse social movements in Turkey: the Kurdish national movement, on the one hand, and the Turkish feminist movement, on the other. My major argument is that the Kurdish women&#39;s movement has powerfully challenged the status and traditional roles of women both in the Kurdish community and in the larger Turkish society. Furthermore, Kurdish female activists have played a central role in the country-wide feminist struggles for peace, wherein they have insisted on a definition of peace which goes beyond the cessation of the bloody conflict between the Turkish state and the militant Kurdistan Workers&#39; Party (PKK) and includes democratization through decentralization, regional autonomy, inclusive citizenship and equal rights for women and all minorities.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\nAfter a brief overview of the Kurdish question in Turkey, I will look at the Kurdish Women&#39;s Movement and its different components: the guerrilla women within the PKK, on the one hand, and the Kurdish female political and civil society activists, on the other. I will then focus on the cooperation between Kurdish and Turkish feminists in several areas: the struggles against the violence towards women, and the advancement of women&#39;s education and employment. I will argue that the Kurdish-Turkish women&#39;s peace advocacy, which will be discussed in the context of the recent peace process (2013-15), marked a new stage in the cross-ethnic feminist cooperation and solidarity. It brought together numerous women&#39;s organizations on an unprecedented scale. Most importantly, it articulated powerful intersectional visions of peace as the termination of what Cynthia Cockburn calls &quot;gendered continuum of violence&quot;-that is the violence which permeates the life of women and marginalized groups in both conflict and non-conflict zones and which is embedded in militarized patriarchal systems of power. Despite the collapse of the peace process and the dismal political developments in Turkey since mid-2015, and in spite of the attendant reversal of most of the political and social achievements of the Kurdish Women&#39;s Movement, the women&#39;s common struggle for peace has continued in limited forms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ina Merdjanova will present her research proposal on the topic: &#8220;The Kurdish Women\u2019s Movement and the Struggle for Peace in Turkey&#8221; on 26 April 2018 (Thursday) at 16:30h.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}