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Publications - the result of our project

Below we present the links to publications which are the result of our project:

 

 

Wendelmoet Hamelink, Houzan Mahmoud, Interview: Kurdish women’s life stories, feminism, and activism: A conversation with Houzan Mahmoud, Kurdish Studies 2022, 10(2), 73-83, open access.

 

 

Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach, Marcin Skupiński, Kaziwa Salih, "We want to have a positive impact’: Fragile ecologies and the Iraqi Kurds’ dutiful environmentalism, Journal of Political Ecology 30(1), 198–218, open access

 

 

Joanna Bocheńska, Wendelmoet Hamelink, Kaziwa Salih, Hüseyin Rodi Keskin, Small Circles of Empowerment Kurdish Women Claiming Citizen Rights and Agency through Language Revitalisation, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights (2023), 1-30, open access

 

 

Hüseyin Rodi Keskin, Cultural Initiatives for Language Revitalisation among Kird/Zaza Women in Turkish Kurdistan, Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies 2024 (22), open access.

 

 

Joanna Bocheńska, Azad Hajiagha, Dissonant Heritage and Women Empowerment: Mestûre Erdelan (1805–1847) as an Example of Performed Heritage in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat), Heritage&Society, 1-23, open access.

 

The Sorani translation of the article Dissonant Heritage and Women Empowerment: Mestûre Erdelan (1805–1847) as an Example of Performed Heritage in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat) by Sako Sherifi is available under the link: کەلەپووری ناتەبا و تواناسازی ژنان



Azad Hajiagha and Wendelmoet Hamelink, Kurdish women’s activism in Iran: struggle for re-conquest of the public sphere,  Identities. Global Studies in Culture and Power, 1-20, open access

 

 

Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach, Azad Rahim Hajiagha, Wendelmoet Hamelink, Grassroots Perspectives from Iranian Kurdistan/Rojhelat on Water Rights and Ecological Activism, Kurdish Studies Journal 2024(2), pp. 151-181, open access



Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach and Goran Zangana (2024). From extraction to contamination: Illegal refineries, polluted waters and environmental activism  in Iraqi Kurdistan. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 0(0), open access

 

 

Nerina Weiss (2024). Dangerous Knowledge and Proxy-Reasons: A Kurdish Woman’s Therapeutic Attempts, Medical Anthropology 43 (7), 598-610, open access.

 

 

Wendelmolet Hamelink, Besime Şen, Joanna Bocheńska, Karol Kaczorowski (2025). Challenging the Gender Regime through Small-scale Activism: Alternative Citizen-Led Projects in Kurdistan/Türkiye. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, open access.

 

 

Joanna Bocheńska, Azad Rahim Hajiagha, Wendelmoet Hamelink, Karol Kaczorowski (2025). Performing Citizenship by “Doing Art”. Women, Art, and Negotiations in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat). The Drama Review 69 (1), 36-53, open access .

 

 

Hayal Hanoğlu, Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach, Wendelmoet Hamelink, Marcin Skupiński (2025). Resistance in a “sacred geography”: Critical perspectives on land, ecology, and activism among Dersimi Alevis in Turkey, Geoforum 161, open access

 

 

Hayal Hanoğlu, Nerina Weiss and Karol Kaczorowski (2025), The roads to empowerment: an intersectional analysis of Kurdish Alevi women’s struggle for equality and freedom, Cogent Arts and Humanities Vol 12 (1), open access