Chapter 1: Introduction: Enacting Citizenship -- PART I: ECOLOGICAL CITIZENSHIP -- Chapter 2: Rights to water and alternative environmental imaginaries across Kurdistan (Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach) -- Chapter 3: Women, Environmental Activism and Stateless Citizenship in Post-State North-East Syria (Marcin Skupiński) -- PART II. CITIZENSHIP, ACTIVISM, AND FAMILY LIFE -- Chapter 4: Between public activism, gender roles and family life among transnational and trans-local Kurds (Karol Kaczorowski) -- Chapter 5: Family, activism and Kurdish Alevi women: Negotiation of gender roles among local and transnational families (Hayal Hanoglu) -- PART III. CITIZENSHIP AND CULTURAL HERITAGE -- Chapter 6: Reading Kurdish Heritage Anew: Woman Representation and Moral Empowerment (Joanna Bochenska) -- Chapter 7: Cultural Initiatives for Language Revitalization Among Kird/Zaza Women in Kurdistan of Turkey (Hüseyin Rodi Keskin) -- PART IV. NEGOTIATIONS OF CITIZENSHIP -- Chapter 8: Lost in Cultural Lag of Heteropatriarchal Conflicts & Utilitarianism in Başȗr. Mapping Women’s Activities that Promote Multilayered Citizenship and Peaceful Coexistence between Male-Led Political Parties (Kaziwa Salih) -- Chapter 9: Discovering lack of equal citizenship demands between Kurdish women: Encounters in a neighborhood in Istanbul (Besime Şen) -- PART IV. CITIZENSHIP AND ACTIVISM -- Chapter 10: Kurdish Women Activism in Iranian Kurdistan: Survival in the Doldrums (Azad Hajiagha) -- Chapter 11: Citizenship from below: Small-scale Kurdish women’s activism (Wendelmoet Hamelink) -- Chapter 12: Conclusion.

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This open access book presents new, empirically-based ethnographic and sociological studies of Kurdish women’s activism and its implications for their rights and the dynamics of citizenship across different social, cultural, and political fields. Organized into five sections, the book explores the ecological and cultural aspects of citizenship and activism; the interplay between activism and family life; the status of citizens and stateless people in marginalized conditions; and the historical development of Kurdish citizenship in various regions of Kurdistan and the diaspora. It offers an in-depth exploration of lived citizenship, social movements, and women activism in the Global South, as well as a comprehensive study of contemporary Kurdish society, politics, and culture. This book is an essential read for researchers in Kurdish studies, women’s and gender studies, family studies, peace and conflict studies, migration studies, environmental studies, and art and literary studies. Wendelmoet Hamelink (PhD) is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Gender Research (STK) of the University of Oslo, Norway Joanna Bocheńska (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies of Population and Religion (CASPAR) and Department of International Relations, Krakow University of Economics, Poland. Karol Kaczorowski (PhD) is Associate Professor at CASPAR and at the Department of International Relations at the Krakow University of Economics, Poland. Hayal Hanoğlu (PhD) is postdoctoral research fellow at CASPAR at the Krakow University of Economics, Poland. Marcin Skupiński University of Warsaw, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Warsaw. Krakow University of Economics, CASPAR, Krakow, Poland. Azad Hajiagha (PhD) is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Hüseyin Rodi Keskin (MA) graduated from the department of Zazaki language and literature at Bingol University, Turkey. He also has a Master's degree in Oriental philology and Iranian studies at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Nerina Weiss (PhD) is Senior Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research in Oslo, Norway. Besime Şen (PhD) is Professor at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts (Department of Urban Studies and Regional Planning), and Director of the Women Studies Research Centre at Mimar Sinan University, Turkey.

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