The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics by Emek Ergun

The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics by Emek Ergun

Prison writings from 22 Kurdish women who were elected to office in Turkey and then imprisoned by the state on political grounds

'This compelling collection highlights personal experiences of imprisoned Kurdish women politicians and their feminist struggle against gender inequality, patriarchal social structures and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey'

-- Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Siena College in Albany, New York

'Takes the reader beyond mere political struggle to a vibrant interconnected memories and inner lives of Kurdish women political prisoners'

-- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor at the University of Toronto and co-author of ‘Women of Kurdistan’

'A powerful testament that a caged bird can still sing, this is an inspiring chorus for people world-wide to join hands and carry forth the fight for freedom, and for life, no matter what the circumstances'

-- Alpa Shah, author of the award-winning 'Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas', and Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics

Gültan Kışanak is a longtime journalist, politician and anticolonial feminist activist for Kurdish liberation, who was elected to Parliament in 2007 as the MP from Diyarbakır. In 2016 she was arrested and charged with 'being a member of an armed illegal organization', for which she was sentenced to over 14 years imprisonment. Ruken Isik holds a Ph.D. in the field of Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Emek Ergun is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Janet Biehl was the collaborator of the late Murray Bookchin. She translated Revolution in Rojava by Knapp et al. and the memoirs of the Kurdish revolutionary, Sakine Cansiz.

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ISBN 13	9780745347080
ISBN 10	0745347088
Title	The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics
Author	Emek Ergun
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pluto Press
Year published	2022-11-01
Number of pages	272
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