The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation

Hamelink, Wendelmoet

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“…In a region where matters of language, literature, culture and history are so readily politicised and permanently contested, and in a region where literacy and orality interact in complex ways with linguistic domination and marginalisation, ethnographic and philological methods may benefit each other, -if they can be strictly distinguished at all. For example, in the light of the particular (and rapidly changing) relation between oral and literate practices in Kurdistan, and of the public status of poets and other literati in Kurdish society, the study of the production and consumption of literature requires ethnographic fieldwork as much as methods strictly associated with the humanities (see Hamelink, 2016;Bush, 2017).…”

Section: Guney Yildiz University Of Cambridge Ukmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Romano¹,

Yildiz²,

Leezenberg³

2019

Kurd. Stud.

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Marianna Charountaki, Iran and Turkey: International and Regional Engagement in the Middle East, London, I.B. Tauris, 2018, 349 pp., (9781838604714). Mehmet Kurt, Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State. London, Pluto Press, 2017, 188 pp., (978 0745399348).Bahar Baser, Mari Toivanen, Begum Zorlu, Yasin Duman, eds., Methodological Approaches in Kurdish studies: Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019, 254 pp., (9781498575218).

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Section: Guney Yildiz University Of Cambridge Ukmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Romano¹,

Yildiz²,

Leezenberg³

2019

Kurd. Stud.

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“…These long-standing oral traditions tend to depict local events rather than overarching national history. They testify to a social world before the onset of nationalist modernity, in which close kinship networks dominated the flow of everyday life while imperial states and other transregional actors remained distant, though powerful, external actors (Hamelink 2016: 60–65). Dengbêjs do not only recite long-transmitted kilams , however, but also compose new ones that bear witness to and comment upon current events and personal experiences.…”

Section: Valorizing Kurdish Historymentioning

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Archived Voices, Acoustic Traces, and the Reverberations of Kurdish History in Modern Turkey

Schäfers

2019

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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This article investigates how middle-aged to elderly Kurdish women in Turkey engage with large collections of Kurdish music recordings in their possession. Framing them as archives, women mobilize these collections as central elements in a larger, ongoing Kurdish project of historical critique, which seeks to resist hegemonic state narratives that have long denied and marginalized Kurdish voices. While recognizing the critical intervention such archives make, the article contends that, to be heard as “history” with a legitimate claim to authority, subaltern voices often have to rely on the very hegemonic forms, genres, and discourses they set out to challenge. This means that subaltern projects of historical critique walk a fine line between critique and complicity, an insight that nuances narratives that would approach subaltern voices predominantly from a perspective of resistance. At the same time, this article argues that a more complete picture of subaltern archives requires us to attend to the voices they contain not just as metaphors for resistance or political representation but also as acoustic objects that have social effects because of the way they sound. By outlining the affective qualities that voice recordings held for the Kurdish women who archived them, the article shows how their collections participated in carving out specific, gendered subject positions as well as forging a broader Kurdish sociality. Paying attention to history's “acoustic register” (Hunt 2008), this suggests, promises to open up perspectives on subaltern historiography that go beyond binary frameworks of resistance and domination, critique and complicity.

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“…In Kurdish studies, some authors have argued for a special focus on Kurdish women's experiences during war and post-war situations, as women and men have played different roles and were/are differently victimised and targeted in war and conflict in Kurdistan (see for example Begikhani, forthcoming, 2003Begikhani, forthcoming, , 2015Hamelink, 2016;Minoo, 2013;King, 2013;Weiss, 2012Weiss, , 2010Mojab 2001). Also, because women are generally much less situated in positions of power, their relative powerlessness compared to men "leads to differences in their ability to cope with risks and manage their lives" (Hardi, 2011: 4).…”

Section: Women and War: A Feminist Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…"Paradoxically, [this] peculiar victim psychology has the power to liberate women by relating their life conditions to the state through rights discourses" (Gökalp, 2010: 565). Hamelink (2016) argues that Kurdish female dengbêjs (singer-poets) were able to mobilise PKK discourse about the "oppressed" status of Kurdish women's lives, and the need for women's liberation, to change their own position and become more visible and public as female performers. These examples show how many Kurdish women have adopted and mobilised political discourses to attempt to improve their position in their local environment, to make themselves heard, and to convince male relatives of the justness of their demands.…”

Section: Women Agency and Victimhoodmentioning

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Theorising women and war in Kurdistan: A feminist and critical perspective

Begikhani¹,

Hamelink²,

Weiss³

2018

Kurd. Stud.

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In this introductory article to the special issue Women and War in Kurdistan, we connect our topic to feminist theory, to anthropological theory on war and conflict and their long-term consequences, and to theory on gender, nation and (visual) representation. We investigate Kurdish women’s victimisation and marginalisation, but also their resistance and agency as female combatants and women activists, their portrayal by media and scholars, and their self-representation. We offer herewith a critical perspective on militarisation, women’s liberation, and women’s experiences in times of war and peace. We also introduce the five articles in this issue and discuss how they contribute to the study of women and war in two main areas: the wide-reaching effects of war on women’s lives, and the gendered representation and images of war in Kurdistan. ABSTRACT IN KURMANJIBîrdoza jin û şer li Kurdistanê. Perspektîveke femînîst û rexnegirîDi vê nivîsara danasîner a hejmara taybet a li ser Jin û Şer li Kurdistanê de, em mijarê behsê bi bîrdoza femînîst, bîrdoza mirovnasiyê ya şer û pevçûnan û encamên wan yên demdirêj, û bîrdoza zayend, netewe û nîşane (ya ditinî) ve girêdidin. Em li ser vederkirin û mexdûrkirina jinên kurd lêkolînê dikin, her wekî meseleya berxwedan û îradeya şervanên jin û çalakvanên mafên jinan, û pirsên ku çawa medya û lêkolîner qala wan dikin û çawa ew jî xwe didin nîşan. Em her weha perspektîveke li ser leşkerîkirin, azadkirina jinan û tecrubeyên jinan di heyamên şer û aştiyê de pêşberî xwendevanan dikin. Di ber re, em danasîna her pênc nivîsarên vê hejmarê jî dikin û girîngiya wan a ji bo lêkolînên jin û şerî di du warên sereke de guftûgo dikin: encamên berfireh yên şer li ser jiyana jinan, û nîşane û dimenên zayendî yên şer li Kurdistanê. ABSTRACT IN SORANIBe Tiyorîkirdinî rewşî jinan û ceng le Kurdistan: Goşenîgayekî fêmînîstî w rexnegiraneLem çend wutare da, ke melefêkî taybete be jinan û ceng le Kurdistan, hewlman dawe ke kogîrîyek bikeyn le ruwangey fêmînîstî w tiyorîy antropolojî leser ceng û milmilanê w akame dirêjxayenekanyan le layek û herweha tiyorîy regez, netewe w têruwanînî nwênerêtîkirdin le layekî dîke. Ême xwêndineweman kirdûwe bo kêşey bequrbanîbûn û perawêzxistinî jinan. Le heman kat da mijarî berxodan û xorêxistinî jinan wek cengawer û çalakanî mafî jinan û wêney ewan le rageyandin û lenêw lêkolînewe zanistiyekan û têruwanînî xoşyan da. Ême herweha têruwanînî rexnegiraneman leser mijarî çekdarî, azadîy jinan û ezmûnî jinan le katî ceng û aştî da xistote rû. Lem melefe taybete da, pênc wutarman pêşkêş kirdûwe w eweman nîşan dawe keçon le dû layenî giringewe tîşk xirawete ser mijareke: karîgerîy firawanî ceng le ser jiyanî jinan, herweha nuwandin û wêney regezî jinan le ceng le Kurdistan da.

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The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation

Cited by 56 publications

References 17 publications

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