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Julia Wartmann - Feminist Governance in North and East Syria, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Feminist Governance in North and East Syria

Negotiating Freedom, Gender Equality and Multiculturalism

Av Julia Wartmann

Del i serien Critiquing Gender & Islam: Transnational, Intersectional and Queer Perspectives

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Since the start of the Syrian revolution in 2011 and the ensuing civil war, the Kurdish-led Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES) has pursued a democratic-confederalist system of government that emphasises decentralisation, multiculturalism and the empowerment of marginalised groups. Enacting policies such as the Women's Law to promote women's freedom and combat patriarchy, its explicitly feminist constitution guarantees gender equality and women's rights.This book challenges prevailing narratives of North and East Syria (more widely known as Rojava) as a feminist utopia. Providing a nuanced analysis of the gendered power hierarchies at work, Julia Wartmann explores how DAANES' discourse and practice of gender equality produces women as particular kinds of subjects. She argues that the organisations charged with addressing women’s issues are structured by an us-versus-them binary which leads to the othering of Muslim Arab women and reproduces the racialised-sexualised boundaries that they set out to reject.
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Julia Wartmann is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland at the Institute for Political Studies. She obtained her PhD in political science from the University of Basel with a thesis on the gender-equality reforms in the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. Her work, which challenges universal concepts like equality, agency and patriarchy, is situated at the intersection of international relations and gender studies. Her background is in social and cultural anthropology and Arabic (University in Zurich) as well as International Relations of the Middle East with Arabic (University of Edinburgh). She has published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, as well as in several edited collections, including, Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Thomas Pierret and Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (EUP).

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