Event overview
'Subjectivity, Morality and Space in Kurdish Conflict'- with Esin Duzel, LSE Part of spring term seminar series
This presentation is concerned with political morality, how people create, challenge and transform the orders they deem good, better, and even utopian. Based on one-year of ethnographic research conducted between 2010–2015 among politically engaged Kurds in Diyarbakır, archival research and literary analysis, I trace the change in the political agenda of the Kurdish movement, from nationalist separatism to democratic confederacy, from hitherto unexplored perspective of the everyday making of the utopia. I will argue that the political transformation was made possible not only through top-down declarations by the political elites, but also through the constant negotiations of an ideal moral existence. I will show that Kurdish women in particular have been the invisible makers of the Kurdish utopia and its moral lives. They have been recreating the utopia in three central realms of moral cultivation—namely intimacy, space, and subjectivity. Through such investigation, my goal is to complicate the relationship between the moral and political through the experience of utopianism weaved and is made to survive under conditions of an armed conflict, neoliberal transformation, and absence of nation-state sovereignty.
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| 18 Mar 2020 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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