Rebel governance and gender in northeast Syria
Transformative Ideology as a Challenge to Negotiating Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5761410 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pinar Tank (0000-0003-4754-5377, Peace Research Institute Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1-3 |
| Pages | 69-87 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Thematics A TWQ Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2379-9978 • E-ISSN: 2380-2014 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23802014.2022.2115547 |
| OpenAlex | W4294953438 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
The Democratic Union Party (PYD), the dominant Kurdish political party in Northern Syria, has led a vanguard movement for autonomy based on Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan's ideology of democratic confederalism. A central component of this ideology is the focus on gender equality (jineologi). Ideology has served as a potent mobilising force in particular by empowering women, a group that is often at the margins of power in traditional Kurdish society, and is a cornerstone of the Rojava revolution. However, it also presents challenges for the PYD in their relations with local tribes on whom the PYD depends for sustaining the Kurdish position in the northeast. Turkey's interventions have given the tribes a new position in the conflict and for the PYD, this means that negotiating power with the tribes will be increasingly critical to their own position. In an effort to retain a dominant position how will the PYD, no longer a vanguard movement, relate to key elements of their gender ideology? This article examines the challenges of transformative rebel governance ideology in negotiating with traditional social structures examined through the lens of gender
Corporate governance · Economics · Ideology · Management · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformative learning · Gender Studies · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Turkey's Politics and Society
Revolution in Rojava
The ambiguities of democratic autonomy
Gender and Citizenship in Middle Eastern States
Shaykhs and Ideologues
State and Tribes in Syria
Governing for Revolution
The Wartime Origins of Democratization
Greed and grievance in civil war
Learning from defeat
The Evolving Kurdish Question in Turkey
The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey
Turkey's H2O Diplomacy in the Middle East
New Directions in Rebel Governance Research
Transforming State Visions
Tribal engagement strategies in the Islamic Emirate of Azawad
Insurgent engagement with kinship group authorities
The Islamic State's tribal policies in Syria and Iraq
Rebels & Legitimacy; An Introduction
Kurdish Women in Rojava
Politics, Ideology, and Belief Systems
On the Concept of Ideology in Political Science
Transformations of the Concept of Ideology in the Twentieth Century
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
Studying Elite Political Culture
Reassembling the Political
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |