scholarly journals Feminism, gender and power in Kurdish Studies: An interview with Prof. Shahrzad Mojab

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-111
Author(s):  
Marlene Schäfers
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Kurdish Women ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
Gender And Power ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Insight Into

In this interview, Prof. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her longstanding personal, political, and intellectual engagement with Kurdish women. Twenty years after publishing the ground-breaking edited volume Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds (Mazda Publishers, 2001), Mojab assesses the complex relation between Kurdish Studies and feminism and evaluates current discussions regarding gendered power relations in Kurdish scholarship. Gender relations in Kurdish society and in Kurdish Studies can only be understood, she insists, when taking into account how gender intersects with capitalism, class, colonialism, nationalism, and patriarchy. Through her personal trajectory, the interview offers insight into the historical developments that have facilitated Kurdish women to increasingly be included in Kurdish Studies as both researchers and research participants. Abstract in Kurmanji Femînîzm, zayend û hêz di Xebatên Kurdî de: Hevpeyvînek ligel Prof. Shahrzad Mojab Di vê hevpeyvînê de, Prof. Shahrzad Mojab eleqeya xwe demdirêj a şexsî, siyasî û entelektuel ya ligel jinên kurd nîşan dide. Bîst sal piştî weşandina Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds [Jinên Neteweya Bêdewlet: Kurd] (Weşanên Mazdayê, 2001), Mojab têkiliya tevlîhev a di navbera Xebatên Kurdî û femînîzmê de; û nîqaşên nûjen yên di derbarê têkiliyên hêzê yên reng-zayendî yên di akademiya kurdî de dinirxîne. Têkiliyên zayendî yên di civaka kurd û Xebatên Kurdî de, ew îdia dike, hew ew çax dikare were fehmkirin ku bê qebûlkirin ka çawa zayend bi kapîtalîzm, sinif, kolonyalîzm, netewperwerî û bavsalariyê re tevlîhev e. Bi rêgeya xwe ya şexsî, ev hevpeyvîn pêşkêşiya fehmeke bûyerên dîrokî dike ku rê vekirin jinên kurd bi hejmareke zêde, hem weke lêkolîner hem jî weke beşdarên lêkolînan bikevin nav Xebatên Kurdî. Abstract in Sorani Fêmînîzm, cender û hêz le twêjînewey kurdîda: Dîmaneyek legell profîsor şehrezad mocab  Lem dîmaneyeda, profîsor şehrezad mocab tîşk dexateser têkellîye kesî û siyasî û hizrîye dûrudrêjekanî xoy legell jinanî kurd. Bîst sall dway billawkirdnewey bergî  pêşenganey "jinanî netewey-nadewlletî: kurdekan (dezgay bllawkirdnewey mazda, 2001) , mocab peywendî allozî nêwan twêjînewey kurdî û fîmînîzm helldesengênêt û giftugoy êstaş derbarey peywendîyekanî cenderî le twêjînewey kurdîda denrixênêt. Ew pêleser ewe dadegrêt ke tenha katêk detwanîn le peywendî cênderî le komellgay kurdî û le twêjînewey kurdîda têbgeyn ke ewe leberçaw bigrîn ke çon cênder legell sermayedarî, çîn, kolloniyalîzm, nasiyonalîzm, we pyawsalarî yekdebrrêt. Le ruwangey rêrrewî şexsî xoyewe, çawpêkewtneke tîşk dexate ser ew peresendne mêjûyyaney ke karasanî bo jinanî kurd kirduwe ta ziyatir bixrêne naw twêjînewey kurdî hem wek twêjer û hem wek beşdarbûy twêjînewe.   Abstract in Zazaki Kurdnasîye de femînîzm, cinsîyet û hêz: Prof. Şahrzad Mojab reyde roportajêk  Nê roportajî de Profesore Şahrzad Mojab angajmanê xo yo kesî, sîyasî û roşnvîrîyo derg ke  cinîkanê kurdan ser o da, ey ana ra ziwan. Vîşt serrî weşanayîşê eserê xo yê înovatîfî Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds (Cinîkê Neteweya Bêdewlete: Kurdî, Weşanê Mazda, 2001) ra pey, Majob têkilîya komplekse mabênê kurdnasîye û femînîzmî de û munaqeşeyê ke no taw zereyê cigêrayîşanê kurdan de derheqê têkilîyanê cinsîyetkerdeyan de yenê kerdene, înan erjnena. A israr kena ke têkilîyê cinsîyetî yê komelê kurdan û kurdnasîye tena fehm benê eke merdim çatrayîrê cinsîyetî bi kapîtalîzm, sinife, kolonyalîzm, neteweperwerîye û patrîarkîye kî tey bihesibno. Pê raywanîya Majob a şexsîye no roportaj roştî dano averşîyayîşanê tarîxîyan ke cinîkanê kurdan rê rayîr kerd ra ke ê hîna zêde hem sey cigêrayoxan hem zî sey hetkaranê cigêrayoxan tewrê kurdnasîye bibê.

‘To Speak of Cattle is to Speak of Man’: Anthroparchal Interactions in John Connell’s The Farmer’s Son

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-351
Author(s):  
Paul Mihai Paraschiv ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Insight Into

“To Speak of Cattle is to Speak of Man”: Anthroparchal Interactions in John Connell’s The Farmer’s Son. The present paper intends to build a critique of contemporary farming practices, based on Erika Cudworth’s theory of “anthroparchy.” By exemplifying how anthroparchal interactions function in John Connell’s memoir, I will outline the becoming of a posthuman farmer that awakens certain sensibilities towards nonhuman animals, in ways that compel a rethinking of gendered relations, patriarchy, violence, and capitalist interests. The analysis provides a needed insight into recent developments in Irish rural farming, detailing the position of the human subject in relation to nonhuman otherness and describing some of the changes that need to be made regarding the power relations that are at work within patriarchal systems. To this extent, Cudworth’s theoretical framework and Connell’s memoir are proven to be contributing to the necessary restructuring of farming practices and of human-nonhuman interactions. Keywords: anthroparchy, posthumanism, gender relations, zoomorphism, capitalism, farming

scholarly journals Monstrous Women

PhaenEx ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIANNA TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Insight Into

In this paper I argue that “monstrous” women – violators of both moral and gender norms – mark the limits of acceptable behavior through such violation and thus provide particular insight into the workings of gendered power relations within contemporary western societies.  Drawing upon Michel Foucault’s 1975 College de France course titled Abnormal, I begin by arguing that gendered power relations in western societies can be characterized as “normalizing.”  Next, I refer to Foucault’s discussion of “natural” and “moral” monsters in order to provide a sketch of the monstrous woman, and then show how specific monstrous women violate moral and gender norms.  By way of conclusion I argue that the figure of the monstrous women is not wholly negative but rather ambivalent.  As Foucault asserts, monsters are “limit figures;” monstrous women challenge limits – including prevailing norms governing the feminine and the human – in ways that render them explicit such that they are denaturalized and ultimately opened up to critical interrogation.

I said, they said: The ethnographic backstage and the politics of producing engaged anthropology

Ethnography ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146613812110168
Author(s):  
Roseann Liu
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Engaged Anthropology ◽  
Equal Power ◽  
Critical Aspects

Two commonly articulated goals of engaged anthropology include: 1) creating equal power relations with research participants; and 2) producing scholarship that critiques inequality. Though these seem commensurate, this article discusses how working toward both goals can lead to conflict when collaborators vehemently disagree with the critical aspects of your research findings. This article argues that writing about the ethnographic backstage — the background negotiations that rarely make it to the printed page — can help engaged anthropologists foster more egalitarian relations when it comes to ethnographic representation and can sharpen our sociocultural critiques. Because engaged anthropology, by definition, is shaped by negotiations with research participants, examining the ethnographic backstage helps us better understand an important axis in the production of anthropological knowledge.

Women's Pages in Australian Print Media from the 1850s

2014 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Print Media ◽  
News Values ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Female Journalists ◽  
Woman Reader ◽  
Digital Formats ◽  
Insight Into

For a roughly a century, from the 1870s to the 1970s, most Australian newspapers ran a section directed towards a woman reader written from a woman's perspective and edited by a female journalist. The rise and fall of the women's editor's ‘empire within an empire’ provides insight into female journalists' industrial situation, as well as a window on to gender relations in colonial and post-Federation Australia. This history matches wider struggles over the notion of separate spheres and resulting claims for equality, as well as debates over mainstream news values. This article investigates the appearance and disappearance of women's sections from Australian newspapers, and argues that this story has greater impact on contemporary digital formats than we perhaps realise.

‘High-Engender'd Battles’: Gender and Power in ‘Queen Lear’

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (54) ◽  
pp. 139-145
Author(s):  
Teresa Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Open University ◽  
Previous Issue ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
End Products ◽  
Gender And Power ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
The University

As a companion piece to the foregoing study of Ophelia and /, Hamlet, there follows a full appraisal of a project discussed in the previous issue (NTQ53) as part of our feature on the Open University/BBC experiments in ‘multimedia Shakespeare’. For King Lear: Text and Performance – one of the pilot CD-ROMS which were the end-products of the experiment – three teams of performers were commissioned, in collaboration with the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, to create over a two-day period their own variations on the Heath Scene in Lear. The most innovative of these, in Teresa Dobson's judgement, was conceived and directed by the Canadian performance artist and writer Beau Coleman, who envisioned a female Lear – a woman who, having found success in a male-dominated world, comes to confront the nature of that power in the process of relinquishing it. Teresa Dobson, who teaches in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta, witnessed and here records the development of the project, also assessing how far it succeeded in its intention to ‘raise questions about the gender and power relations in King Lear, as well as questions about what happens when Lear himself is cast against gender’.

scholarly journals “Practicing care in qualitative organizational research: moral responsibility and legitimacy in a study of immigration management”

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Okkonen ◽  
Tuomo Takala ◽  
Emma Bell
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Reception Centre ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Practice Care ◽  
Immigration Management

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the reciprocal relations between the caregiving imparted by immigration centre managers and the role of the researcher in responding to the care that is given by managerial caregivers. To enable this, we draw on a feminist theory of care ethics that considers individuals as relationally interdependent.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis draws on a semi-structured interview study involving 20 Finnish immigration reception centre managers.FindingsInsight is generated by reflecting on moments of care that arise between research participants and the researcher in a study of immigration centre management. We emphasise the importance of mature care, receptivity and engrossment in building caring relationships with research participants by acknowledging the care they give to others. Our findings draw attention to the moral and epistemological responsibility to practice care in organizational research.Originality/valueThe paper highlights the relationality between practicing care in immigration centre management and doing qualitative organizational research, both of which rely on mature care, receptivity and engrossment in order to meet the other morally. We draw attention to the moral responsibility to care which characterises researcher–researched relationships and emphasise the importance of challenging methodological discourses that problematise or dismiss care in qualitative organizational research.

Girly Games and Girl Gamers

Gaming Sexism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 86-110
Author(s):  
Amanda C. Cote
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Gaming Industry ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Casual Games ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Insight Into

Where chapter 2 focused on overt sexism, this chapter explores the subtler, but equally damaging, impacts of inferential sexism, or factors that appear to be nondiscriminatory but rest on limiting assumptions about gender and gender relations. The chapter finds that participants feel misunderstood by the gaming industry, which offers women infantilizing or stereotypical “girly games” rather than crafting interesting games for adult women. It also finds that women often face surprised reactions to their presence in gaming spaces or assumptions that they game to meet men. Like overt harassment, this makes female gamers feel abnormal or out of place and serves to preserve gaming’s existing hegemony, limiting women’s ability to affect game culture. Furthermore, this chapter reveals that the rise of casual games has complicated this situation rather than improved it. In this way, this chapter both addresses new aspects of women’s experiences in masculinized spaces and provides insight into the casualized era’s ongoing trials.

History and International Relations

Mind-Society ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 228-256
Author(s):  
Paul Thagard
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
General Theory ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Insight Into

Historical explanation and the understanding of international relations can be enhanced by applying detailed psychological, neural, and social mechanisms to real-world events. By applying the method of social cognitive-emotional workups to the origins of World War I, this chapter shows the relevance of an integrated account of beliefs, concepts, values, rules, analogies, metaphors, emotions, inferences, and communication. The result transcends the limitations of purely narrative explanations in history and provides insight into why the field of international relations has lacked a satisfactory general theory. Explaining social changes in both groups and individuals requires understanding the communicative interactions of cognitive-emotional minds; the result is mechanistic-narrative explanation. Dealing with complex historical developments such as the outbreak of wars requires solution of the person–group problem.

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