Join us for the third session of our four-part summer study series hosted in collaboration with City Kurds and the Kurdish Gender Studies Network. This session explores the political economy of Kurdistan under colonial rule by examining how borders, extractivism, and militarization shape labor, development, and ecological life. Bringing together examples from across Kurdistan, we will discuss extractivism and ecological destruction, the colonial border economy and its gendered dimensions, processes of de-development, and the destruction of infrastructure and the war economy.
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Nilay Özok-Gündoğan: “Extractive Colonialism and State Making in Early Modern Ottoman Kurdistan.”
Soleimani, Kamal, and Ahmad Mohammadpour: “Life and Labor on the Internal Colonial Edge: Political Economy of Kolberi in Rojhelat."
Mohammadpour, Ahmad, and Aso Javaheri: “Weeping without Tears: Kurdish Female Kolbers and Gendered Necropolitics of State in Iran.”
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Türk, Necmettin, and Joost Jongerden: “Decolonisation Agriculture: Challenging Colonisation through the Reconstruction of Agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava).”
Alice von Bieberstein. Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey.