{"product_id":"the-mother-the-politician-and-the-guerrilla-womens-political-imagination-in-the-kurdish-movement-paperback","title":"The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla: Women's Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNazan ﾜst?dağ\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla\u003c\/i\u003e intervenes in discussions on decolonialism and feminism by introducing the example of the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement. ﾜst?dağ shows how the practices and the concepts of the movement contribute to debates on how the past, present, and future can be critically rethought in revolutionary ways. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the movement's images, figures, voices, bodies, and their reverberations ﾜst?dağ elaborates a new political imagination that has emerged in Kurdistan through women's acts and speech. This political imagination unfolds between flesh, body, voice, language. It is the result of Kurdish women's desire to find new ways of being and becoming, between the necessary and the possible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the figures of the mother, the woman politician and woman guerilla, ﾜst?dağ argues that the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement changes what politics consists of, including its matter, relationality, temporality, and spatiality. Although anchored in the specific Kurdish experiences, the book puts the movement into conversation with feminist political theory, psychoanalysis, Black Studies, Queer Studies, and Decolonial Studies. In solidarity with the Kurdish Movement's tradition of resistance to History with a capital H that Kurds have built through reiterated performance, the book seeks to establish what new entanglements with wide-ranging thought the movement offers as a provocation for contemporary politics.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a brilliantly original reading of the nature of the resistance to the Turkish state's Kurdish policies by the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement. The book is beautifully written, even lyrical in places, a kind of poetic tribute to the possibilities this movement embodies.\"--\u003cb\u003eJoan Wallach Scott\u003c\/b\u003e, Institute for Advanced Study \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla\u003c\/i\u003e is a captivating story of Kurdish women persuading us to listen attentively to women's political imagination. Drawing from postcolonial, decolonial and Black studies, the book poetically narrates and eloquently theorizes the Kurdish women's power to transform the ruling relations.\"--\u003cb\u003eShahrzad Mojab\u003c\/b\u003e, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla\u003c\/i\u003e intervenes in discussions on decolonialism and feminism by introducing the example of the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement. ﾜst?dağ shows how the practices and the concepts of the movement contribute to debates on how the past, present, and future can be critically rethought in revolutionary ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the movement's images, figures, voices, bodies, and their reverberations ﾜst?dağ elaborates a new political imagination that has emerged in Kurdistan through women's acts and speech. This political imagination unfolds between flesh, body, voice, language. It is the result of Kurdish women's desire to find new ways of being and becoming, between the necessary and the possible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the figures of the mother, the woman politician and woman guerilla, ﾜst?dağ argues that the Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement changes what politics consists of, including its matter, relationality, temporality, and spatiality. Although anchored in the specific Kurdish experiences, the book puts the movement into conversation with feminist political theory, psychoanalysis, Black Studies, Queer Studies, and Decolonial Studies. In solidarity with the Kurdish Movement's tradition of resistance to History with a capital H that Kurds have built through reiterated performance, the book seeks to establish what new entanglements with wide-ranging thought the movement offers as a provocation for contemporary politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNazan ﾜst?dağ\u003c\/b\u003e is Patrimonies Program Fellow at the Gerda Henkel Foundation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNazan ﾜst?dag˘ \u003c\/b\u003eis an Independent Scholar. Between 2020 and 2023, she was a Patrimonies Program Fellow at the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Between 2005 and 2018, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bog˘azi輅 University, Turkey. She was subsequently an Academy in Exile and IIE- Scholar Rescue Fund Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777604649248,"sku":"9781531505523","price":56.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/518344705b1f157f7ccb3f3f3177b201.webp?v=1780500108","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-mother-the-politician-and-the-guerrilla-womens-political-imagination-in-the-kurdish-movement-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}