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“War is like a Blanket…:” Feminist Convergences in Kurdish and Turkish Women’s Rights Activism for Peace (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Ali, N., & Tas, L. (2017). “War is like a Blanket…:” Feminist Convergences in Kurdish and Turkish Women’s Rights Activism for Peace. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 13(3), 354-375. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4179001

Despite the recent outbreak of violence and conflict, peace continues to be high on the agenda of the Kurdish political movement and many progressive Turkish intellectuals and activists. We conducted qualitative multi-sited ethnographic research in T... Read More about “War is like a Blanket…:” Feminist Convergences in Kurdish and Turkish Women’s Rights Activism for Peace.

Queering Migration Discourse: Differentiating Racism and Migratism in Postcolonial Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2017). Queering Migration Discourse: Differentiating Racism and Migratism in Postcolonial Europe. Lambda nordica, 22(2-3), 21-40

In this article I make one main argument: I claim that a differentiation of racism and migratism is needed in critical (queer feminist) knowledge production concerned with racism and migration in postcolonial Europe(s).
With my analysis I show that... Read More about Queering Migration Discourse: Differentiating Racism and Migratism in Postcolonial Europe.

The Abyss (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2017, October). The Abyss. Presented at International Human Rights and Freedom: Possibilities, Epistemologies, Legacies and Alternatives, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

How might one think limits of one’s disciplinary world in a productive way, that is, with a view not to end up with yet another, even if more expansive, disciplinary cogito but rather, if you will, an epistemic abyss that opens to more radical imagin... Read More about The Abyss.

Policing gender mobilities: interrogating the ‘feminisation of migration’ to Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Marchetti, S., & Salih, R. (2017). Policing gender mobilities: interrogating the ‘feminisation of migration’ to Europe. International Review of Sociology, 27(1), 6-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2017.1303966

This article proposes a gendered critique of the European Neighbourhood Policy, a framework that, amongst other things, aims to facilitate the mobility of migrants to the EU from the bordering countries. We highlight the ambivalences of European gend... Read More about Policing gender mobilities: interrogating the ‘feminisation of migration’ to Europe.

Foreword (2017)
Book Chapter
Al-Ali, N. (2017). Foreword. In A. Öcalan (Ed.), The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism (vii-xvii). Pluto Press

Selfhood and Archipelago in Indonesia: A Case for Human Polyversality (2017)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2017). Selfhood and Archipelago in Indonesia: A Case for Human Polyversality. In O. Sircar, & P. Jain (Eds.), New Intimacies / Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times (235-252). Zubaan Books; Chicago University Press

The Influence of Diaspora Politics on Conflict and Peace: Transnational Activism of Stateless Kurds (2017)
Book Chapter
Tas, L. (2017). The Influence of Diaspora Politics on Conflict and Peace: Transnational Activism of Stateless Kurds. In D. Cament, & A. Sadjed (Eds.), Diaspora as Cultures of Cooperation (171-198). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32892-8_9

Kurds are the largest stateless ethnic group in the world, and Kurdish diasporas have for many years tried to raise awareness of the Kurds’ situation, both at home and abroad, as well as lobbying for improvements to Kurdish cultural and political rig... Read More about The Influence of Diaspora Politics on Conflict and Peace: Transnational Activism of Stateless Kurds.

(Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian Refugee-ness in Lebanon (2017)
Journal Article
Allouche, S. (2017). (Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian Refugee-ness in Lebanon. Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, 3(1), 59-77

This paper heeds Jasbir Puar’s call to supplement an intersectional analysis with an exercise of assemblage when examining identity politics. It argues that asylum organizations’ unwillingness to account for the interplay between the receiving state... Read More about (Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian Refugee-ness in Lebanon.