‘‘My mother, My sister, My grandmother’’ A decolonial understanding of the colonial violence Kurdish women faced during the genocide of 1980–1988.
(2024) GNVM03 20241Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract
- Kurdish women’s resistance, self-preservation, reclamation of their language, surviving, and living undeniably as a Kurdish woman is to defy and resist colonial violence. The existence of Kurdish women as Indigenous peoples across four different colonial powers is within itself an act of resistance. This study illuminates the significance of the colonial violence against Kurdish women and their everyday experiences before, during, and after incarceration during the genocide of 1980-1988. The study conducted interviews with six Kurdish women who lived in Baghdad and were incarcerated and deported. Their stories of oppression reflect the sexual violence, displacement, and murder that affected Kurds in Baghdad, under Saddam Hussein’s regime.... (More)
- Kurdish women’s resistance, self-preservation, reclamation of their language, surviving, and living undeniably as a Kurdish woman is to defy and resist colonial violence. The existence of Kurdish women as Indigenous peoples across four different colonial powers is within itself an act of resistance. This study illuminates the significance of the colonial violence against Kurdish women and their everyday experiences before, during, and after incarceration during the genocide of 1980-1988. The study conducted interviews with six Kurdish women who lived in Baghdad and were incarcerated and deported. Their stories of oppression reflect the sexual violence, displacement, and murder that affected Kurds in Baghdad, under Saddam Hussein’s regime. This study builds off a decolonial foundation to develop situated knowledge within Kurdish studies as well as holding the foundation of embarking upon a healing and liberating course to provide safety and justification for the women interviewed. The study discusses the vitality of indigenous storytelling, for and by indigenous people as a means to delink from western configurations of knowledge production along with delinking Kurdistan from coloniality. Furthermore, the study establishes the vitality of kinship, community, and mobilizations as foundations in a decolonial process regarding the experiences of the Kurdish women interviewed. (Less)
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- author
- Cheragwandi, Nerme Nazare LU
- supervisor
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- Mia Liinason LU
- organization
- course
- GNVM03 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Kurdish genocide, gendered colonial violence, decoloniality, indigenous resistance, incarceration
- language
- English
- id
- 9167852
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-25 09:07:06
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- 2024-06-25 09:07:06
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abstract = {{Kurdish women’s resistance, self-preservation, reclamation of their language, surviving, and living undeniably as a Kurdish woman is to defy and resist colonial violence. The existence of Kurdish women as Indigenous peoples across four different colonial powers is within itself an act of resistance. This study illuminates the significance of the colonial violence against Kurdish women and their everyday experiences before, during, and after incarceration during the genocide of 1980-1988. The study conducted interviews with six Kurdish women who lived in Baghdad and were incarcerated and deported. Their stories of oppression reflect the sexual violence, displacement, and murder that affected Kurds in Baghdad, under Saddam Hussein’s regime. This study builds off a decolonial foundation to develop situated knowledge within Kurdish studies as well as holding the foundation of embarking upon a healing and liberating course to provide safety and justification for the women interviewed. The study discusses the vitality of indigenous storytelling, for and by indigenous people as a means to delink from western configurations of knowledge production along with delinking Kurdistan from coloniality. Furthermore, the study establishes the vitality of kinship, community, and mobilizations as foundations in a decolonial process regarding the experiences of the Kurdish women interviewed.}},
author = {{Cheragwandi, Nerme Nazare}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{‘‘My mother, My sister, My grandmother’’ A decolonial understanding of the colonial violence Kurdish women faced during the genocide of 1980–1988.}},
year = {{2024}},
}