Beyond Orientalism
Exploring the Distinctive Feminism of Democratic Confederalism in Rojava
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arianne Shahvisi (0000-0002-9347-7566, Lecturer in Ethics and Medical Humanities. Brighton & Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 998-1022 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2018.1554564 |
| OpenAlex | W2902989184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 39 |
Women have been central to the revolution in Rojava, leading to widespread interest in the Kurdish women’s movement across Western contexts. Yet Western mass media representations of women combatants tend to be objectifying and superficial, glossing over the unique variety of feminism, known as “jineology,” that is core to the political system of Rojava, which operates according to the ideology of “democratic confederalism.” This paper is intended as a corrective to the inadequate representation of the theory and praxis of the women’s movement in Rojava. It approaches this task by: (a) critiquing the popular representation of women in Rojava, and (b) providing an overview of some of the features of the distinctive feminism that are in operation, with a focus on intersectionality, autonomous spaces, and combatting masculinity
Democracy · Feminism · Ideology · Intersectionality · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Salient · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Tropicality and abjection
Diaspora as socio-material assemblage
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria
The Challenges of a Kurdish Ecofeminist Perspective
Die kurdische Frauenbewegung in Rojava – Kämpfe um Befreiung und Demokratie im Konflikt in Syrien
Reimagining Development
Afterword
Autonomous film culture
Radical Democracy and Educational Experiments
Of predators and new men
Hybrid Peace, Hybrid War
Negotiating what it means to be “free”
White Women Filming Kurdish Women
Move over? Feminist reading of academic writing on Kurdish women
Political geography II
Jin-jiyan-azadi. Matristic culture and Democratic Confederalism in Rojava
Nationality Beyond the Nation-State? The Search for Autonomy in Abdullah Öcalan and Otto Bauer
From caliphate to confederalism
Interdiscursivity, Kurdish nationalism, and femininity
Unbounding Homeland
De la hegemonía a la comuna
Resistir é viver. Notas sobre a luta política das mulheres curdas por uma sociedade antipatriarcal no século xxi
Producing Territory, Resisting the State
Intercultural Mobilities in Central and West Asian Contexts
The Status of Women in Kurdish Society and the Extent of Their Interactions in Public Realm
Syria's Kurds
Colonial Fantasies
Revolution in Rojava
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
The ambiguities of democratic autonomy
Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
Theorising women and war in Kurdistan
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
Female genital mutilation among Iraqi Kurdish women
Between Nationalism and Women's Rights
War Is like a Blanket”
The Kurdish Self-Rule Constitution in Syria
Gender, orientalism and representations of the ‘Other’ in the War on Terror
The Kurdish Women's Movement
Orientalism and ‘saving’ US state identity after 9/11
Individualized femininity and feminist politics of choice
Aylan Kurdi
Doing difference in different times
The republican ideal of freedom as non-domination and the Rojava experiment
Constructing the Kurds in the Turkish press
Game Changers
Mapping the Margins
Reconsidering nationalism and feminism
The Kurdish Question in Turkey
Neoliberalising Feminism
Ecofeminism Revisited
The non-education of Kurds
The Rojava Experience
"Orientalism" and Middle East Feminist Studies
Liberating Life
Honour'-based violence and Kurdish communities
Shifting forms of Turkish state paternalism toward the Kurds
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |