Martyrdom and emotional resistance in the case of Northern Kurdistan

Hidden and Public Emotional Resistance

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7094702
AutoresMinoo Koefoed (0000-0001-8485-4051, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume10
Fascículo2
Páginas184-199
Data de publicação2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Political Power (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2158-379X • E-ISSN: 2158-3803
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2158379x.2017.1335838
OpenAlexW2626166079
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências 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