Latif Tas
Biographic Data
| ID | 453600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Latif Tas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Latif |
| FAMILY NAME | Tas |
| SIGNATURE | TAS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating justice
More than two billion people worldwide work in the informal economy without regulation or legal protection. Many of them work in the service sector, the textile and construction industries, and as domestic help. Migrant workers operating in these contexts, particularly those with precarious legal status, often face significant barriers to accessing formal justice mechanisms. As a result, informal dispute resolution frequently becomes the primary …
A “normal” day under authoritarian rule
This article examines how a “normal” day passes under a conflicted and authoritarian governmentality in an ethnically diverse city in Turkey. When there is no space or tolerance for different ethnic and religious practices, where oppression against Kurds and other minority groups has become almost normal, pluralism is pushed underground. In this article, the examination of the state and understanding everyday life is mainly derived from ethnograp…
Kurdish women’s struggles with gender equality
The article explores the relationship between theory and practice in terms of gender-based equality and justice within both the armed units and the political–legal movement linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey and transnationally. An analysis of the historical developments of both political ideology and mobilisation reveals the radical shift towards a stated commitment to gender-based equality that has taken place within a wider…
Authoritarianism and Kurdish Alternative Politics
Can autocrats and democracy co-exist? Why are autocratic regimes not just a local but also a global issue? Can democracy survive against autocrat's populism? What is the role of media, societal nationalism and intellectuals in autocratic governmentality? Can autocrats go by elections? Why autocrats are so obsessed in courts and judges? Why do we need alternative governmentality? Dr. Latif Tas's timely and important book, Authoritarianism and Alte…
Clashes, collaborations and convergences
This article discusses the various ways the Kurdish women’s movement has impacted feminism in the Turkish context. Against the background of the problematic historical relationship between Turkish and Kurdish women’s rights activists, the article explores the shift in perceptions of, attitudes towards and relations of feminists in Turkey with the Kurdish women’s movement. The article shows that a ‘new generation of feminists’ in Turkey appreciate…
Reconsidering nationalism and feminism
Feminist scholars have documented with reference to multiple empirical contexts that feminist claims within nationalist movements are often side‐lined, constructed as ‘inauthentic’ and frequently discredited for imitating supposedly western notions of gender‐based equality. Despite these historical precedents, some feminist scholars have pointed to the positive aspects of nationalist movements, which frequently open up spaces for gender‐based cla…
War Is like a Blanket”
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. Based on qualitative research we conducted in Diyarbakır, Istanbul, London, and Berlin in 2015–16, we show that Kurdish activists have struggled to make the eradication of gender-based inequalities and violence central to the wider Kurdish peace movement, while T…
How international law impacts on statelessness and citizenship
This paper argues for a new approach to understanding statelessness. It explores the limits of international laws on statelessness and the relationships between statelessness, diaspora and nationalism. It discusses how the condition of statelessness has affected Kurds, and how statelessness has been constructed and experienced at an individual and collective level in the diaspora. It argues for an expanded definition of the international laws of …
One state, plural options
After three decades of living in their new home, Kurds in the UK have progressed from being a ‘victim diaspora’ into becoming more organised, and capable of meeting the diverse needs of their community. Most UK-based Kurds refuse to use the official legal system to settle their disputes, at least initially. Instead, they prefer to resolve their disputes within the community, and for this purpose, they have recreated their own hybridised customary…
Reconsidering nationalism and feminism
Feminist scholars have documented with reference to multiple empirical contexts that feminist claims within nationalist movements are often side‐lined, constructed as ‘inauthentic’ and frequently discredited for imitating supposedly western notions of gender‐based equality. Despite these historical precedents, some feminist scholars have pointed to the positive aspects of nationalist movements, which frequently open up spaces for gender‐based cla…
War Is like a Blanket”
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. Based on qualitative research we conducted in Diyarbakır, Istanbul, London, and Berlin in 2015–16, we show that Kurdish activists have struggled to make the eradication of gender-based inequalities and violence central to the wider Kurdish peace movement, while T…
Kurdish women’s struggles with gender equality
The article explores the relationship between theory and practice in terms of gender-based equality and justice within both the armed units and the political–legal movement linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey and transnationally. An analysis of the historical developments of both political ideology and mobilisation reveals the radical shift towards a stated commitment to gender-based equality that has taken place within a wider…
How international law impacts on statelessness and citizenship
This paper argues for a new approach to understanding statelessness. It explores the limits of international laws on statelessness and the relationships between statelessness, diaspora and nationalism. It discusses how the condition of statelessness has affected Kurds, and how statelessness has been constructed and experienced at an individual and collective level in the diaspora. It argues for an expanded definition of the international laws of …
One state, plural options
After three decades of living in their new home, Kurds in the UK have progressed from being a ‘victim diaspora’ into becoming more organised, and capable of meeting the diverse needs of their community. Most UK-based Kurds refuse to use the official legal system to settle their disputes, at least initially. Instead, they prefer to resolve their disputes within the community, and for this purpose, they have recreated their own hybridised customary…
How international law impacts on statelessness and citizenship
This paper argues for a new approach to understanding statelessness. It explores the limits of international laws on statelessness and the relationships between statelessness, diaspora and nationalism. It discusses how the condition of statelessness has affected Kurds, and how statelessness has been constructed and experienced at an individual and collective level in the diaspora. It argues for an expanded definition of the international laws of …
War Is like a Blanket”
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. Based on qualitative research we conducted in Diyarbakır, Istanbul, London, and Berlin in 2015–16, we show that Kurdish activists have struggled to make the eradication of gender-based inequalities and violence central to the wider Kurdish peace movement, while T…
Reconsidering nationalism and feminism
Feminist scholars have documented with reference to multiple empirical contexts that feminist claims within nationalist movements are often side‐lined, constructed as ‘inauthentic’ and frequently discredited for imitating supposedly western notions of gender‐based equality. Despite these historical precedents, some feminist scholars have pointed to the positive aspects of nationalist movements, which frequently open up spaces for gender‐based cla…
Clashes, collaborations and convergences
This article discusses the various ways the Kurdish women’s movement has impacted feminism in the Turkish context. Against the background of the problematic historical relationship between Turkish and Kurdish women’s rights activists, the article explores the shift in perceptions of, attitudes towards and relations of feminists in Turkey with the Kurdish women’s movement. The article shows that a ‘new generation of feminists’ in Turkey appreciate…
Kurdish women’s struggles with gender equality
The article explores the relationship between theory and practice in terms of gender-based equality and justice within both the armed units and the political–legal movement linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey and transnationally. An analysis of the historical developments of both political ideology and mobilisation reveals the radical shift towards a stated commitment to gender-based equality that has taken place within a wider…
Authoritarianism and Kurdish Alternative Politics
Can autocrats and democracy co-exist? Why are autocratic regimes not just a local but also a global issue? Can democracy survive against autocrat's populism? What is the role of media, societal nationalism and intellectuals in autocratic governmentality? Can autocrats go by elections? Why autocrats are so obsessed in courts and judges? Why do we need alternative governmentality? Dr. Latif Tas's timely and important book, Authoritarianism and Alte…
A “normal” day under authoritarian rule
This article examines how a “normal” day passes under a conflicted and authoritarian governmentality in an ethnically diverse city in Turkey. When there is no space or tolerance for different ethnic and religious practices, where oppression against Kurds and other minority groups has become almost normal, pluralism is pushed underground. In this article, the examination of the state and understanding everyday life is mainly derived from ethnograp…
Navigating justice
More than two billion people worldwide work in the informal economy without regulation or legal protection. Many of them work in the service sector, the textile and construction industries, and as domestic help. Migrant workers operating in these contexts, particularly those with precarious legal status, often face significant barriers to accessing formal justice mechanisms. As a result, informal dispute resolution frequently becomes the primary …
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Nationalism (5 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works)