The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice.
We are delighted to announce a series of events this semester, which showcase new research and publications in a variety of disciplines relating to democratisation, bordering practices, justice, anticolonial and antiracist pedagogies and feminist organising.
This event was initially scheduled to take place on Wednesday 23 November. Due to strike actions taking place that week, it has been postponed to Friday 2 December.
About this event
In this talk, Dilar Dirik will talk about her recently published book The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice (Pluto Press, 2022). The book is an empirically rich account of the revolutionary women's movement in Kurdistan, which has been built over several decades inside a political struggle in the Middle East and the diaspora in a context of state violence and repression. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, archival research and political analysis, it surveys the movement's historical origins, ideological evolution and political practice over the past 40 years, and locates the movement's culture and ideology in its concrete work for autonomy and self-determination in the here and now. In the seminar, Dilar Dirik will contextualise the relevance of this movement for other contemporary anti-system women's and internationalist struggles.
About the Speaker
Dilar Dirik is an activist, political sociologist and writer. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge and currently researches and teaches at the University of Oxford. She is the author of the book The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice. Her research and teaching focus on feminism and women's resistance struggles, justice-seeking, autonomy, war, stateless liberation and radical knowledge production.
Location
This event will occur in person at Room 250, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2HW, and we especially encourage Master's and Year Three students to attend.
