Martyrdom and emotional resistance in the case of Northern Kurdistan

Hidden and Public Emotional Resistance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7094702
AutoresMinoo Koefoed (0000-0001-8485-4051, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen10
Número2
Páginas184-199
Fecha de publicación2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Political Power (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2158-379X • E-ISSN: 2158-3803
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2158379x.2017.1335838
OpenAlexW2626166079
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas30

Violence, deaths, fear and sorrow characterise the everyday lives of those in Turkey’s Kurdish region, also known as Northern Kurdistan. Through ethnographic field research, this article explores connections between resistance and emotions by scrutinising empirical observations and activists’ narratives during and after participation in a ceremony for a 16-year-old Kurdish boy who had been killed by Turkish forces – a ‘martyr’ in the eyes of the activists. By fusing empirical ethnographic data with James Scott’s theoretical works on hidden resistance and Arlie Russell Hochschild’s theorisations of emotional management, two distinct forms of what will be termed emotional resistance will be pointed out. Emotional resistance refers to conscious attempts to manipulate or manoeuvre around one’s own emotional expressions or reactions in order to undermine the power of psychological or direct violence in political contexts

Archaeology · Art · Ceremony · Emotional labor · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Literature · Martyr · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Sorrow · Turkish · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society