Changes conceptions of women’s public space in the Kurdish city

Alizadeh, Hooshmand

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2007.06.002

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“…4 As Vasilyeva (2000: 13) indicates, Mâh Sharaf-Khânoum Kurdistani, who wrote the history of Ardalân's family -also known as the Kurdish poetess Mastura -was the only women-historiographer not only in Sennah/Sanandaj but in all the Near and Middle East till the end of the nineteenth century. She was from the city of Sanandaj belonging to the Wazieri family, the main supporters of Ardalân government (Alizadeh, 2007). 5 This is the year that Cyaxares, the grandson of Deioces (Díyako), the first king of the Medes' empire, occupied Nineveh and put an end to the brutality of the Assyrian empire in the lands under its occupation.…”

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“…Others have adopted a 'regional' perspective, focusing on cities from Africa (Bryceson and Potts, 2006;Demissie, 2008: Locatelli andNugent, 2009), Asia (Alexander et al, 2007;Dick and Rimmer, 1998;Dutt et al, 1994), and more specifically on Chinese (Zang, 2007: Wu, 2007 and Islamic cities (O'Meara, 2007). In addition, writers have sought to understand how specific processes or features recur or diverge across cities, for instance, in studies that spotlight demography (Montgomery et al, 2004), slums, informality and everyday life (Roy, 2005;Roy and Alsayyad, 2004;Rao, 2006), gentrification , women's writing (Lambrigh and Guerrero, 2007), water and infrastructure (Gandy, 2002b), traversing space (Langervang, 2008), social networks (Fawaz, 2008), religion (Valenca, 2006; De Witte, 2008;Henn, 2008), public space and gender ( Jimenez, 2006;Alizadeh, 2007), economic development and regeneration (Fernandes and Negreiros, 2001;Bezmez, 2008), and sexuality (Visser, 2003).…”

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“…Rich (1836: 70) in his first contact with the Kurds in 1820, describes 'the manners and customs of the Kurds [are] unlooked-for honour, and [are] great proof of his friendly and hospitable disposition' and can be traced in the social behaviour and ceremonies of the Kurdish people. For example, the most popular Kurdish dance called Rash-balak is usually performed in a circle with the young boys and girls taking each other's hands (see Plate 9.1a and Plate 9.1b) and the dressing of Kurdish women in vivid colours highlights harmony with the natural landscape (Alizadeh, 2007).…”

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2015

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Since the late eighteenth century academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural, and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities in the 'Global North'. This book offers an important antidote to the focus of urban studies on cities in 'the West'. Urban Theory Beyond the West contains 20 contributions from leading scholars, raising important conceptual issues about cities throughout the world and at different levels of urban hierarchy. Past and current theoretical developments are reviewed and organized into four parts, focusing on de-centring the city, order/ disorder, mobilities, and imaginaries. There are three kinds of chapters published in this volume: theories generated about urbanity 'beyond the West'; critiques, reworking, or refining of 'Western' urban theory based upon conceptual reflection on cities beyond 'the West'; and hybrid approaches that develop both of these perspectives. Urban Theory Beyond the West offers critical and accessible reviews of past and current theoretical developments, providing an original and groundbreaking contribution to urban theory. It is essential reading for students and practitioners interested in urban studies, development studies and geography.

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“…This issue becomes more pressing in countries with patriarchal structures, such as Turkey. Due to Islam's principles of privacy and honor, gender discrimination is spatialized, and space is reserved for men (Alizadeh, 2007;Oğuz, 2016). Consequently, incidences of violence against women, including murder, are increasing day by day.…”

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Planlamaya Rağmen Kentte Var Olabilmek: İzmir Konak’ta Bir Kadın Dostu Kent İncelemesi

Güney¹

2020

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Today, the world is discussing gender mainstreaming. Solutions to ensure women's equality are being sought to address male social, economic, cultural, and spatial sovereignty. However, although primary texts including treatises and legislation advocating the equal rights and freedoms of men and women have recently been composed by experts around in the world in fields such as criminal and civil law and occupational safety, or something to this effect (e.g., the European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women), sufficient provision for gender mainstreaming in the context of transformations arising from socio-cultural structure have not yet been made. This is also the situation in Turkey, where women cannot experience gender mainstreaming due to social gender roles. However, since urban planning literally builds the future drawing upon social values, it has been unable to modify cities according to women's needs and priorities. Accordingly, this paper discusses how urban planning ignores women and explains how this issue can be addressed utilizing the Women-friendly Cities Program, which is a type of objection to this patriarchal structure. This paper then analyzes whether Konak, the central town in İzmir (known to be a "women-friendly" city), is truly women-friendly by performing a field study in one of Konak's most-used areas. In other words, this paper reveals the fact that urban spaces ignore women while explaining the spatial provisions of the "women-friendly" city as well as ways in which urban planning negatively affects women.

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“…While some Kurdish women avoid public spaces so as not to be a source of conflict, traditional conceptions of women's and men's social roles, 34 general perceptions of public spaces as unsafe for women, 35 and even high levels of unemployment, especially among women, 36 may also explain why women stay at home more of the time, experiencing the conflict through their children and husbands. Moreover, how Kurdish men relate to their wives can sometimes be affected by their own experiences of being discriminated against.…”

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Kurdish women in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict – perceptions, experiences, and strategies

Nilsson

2018

Middle Eastern Studies

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Changes conceptions of women’s public space in the Kurdish city

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“Spectral Kinshasa: Building the City through an Architecture of Words”

“Spectral Kinshasa: Building the City through an Architecture of Words”

Planlamaya Rağmen Kentte Var Olabilmek: İzmir Konak’ta Bir Kadın Dostu Kent İncelemesi

Kurdish women in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict – perceptions, experiences, and strategies

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