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ALCITfem 2021-2024

Articles:

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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 .

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

 

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), ss. 151-181, open access

 

 

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

 

 

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 .

 

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 available under the link: کەلەپووری ناتەبا و تواناسازی ژنان

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Book:

 

Enacting Citizenship:Kurdish Women's Resilience, Activism and Creativity, Palgrave Macmillan 2025, open access

 

 

 

Master Thesis:

 

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

 

 

 

Interviews:

 

 

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

 

 

Wendelmoet Hamelink, Essmat Sophie, Literature, Feminism, and Activism in Rojhelat and the Diaspora A Conversation with Essmat Sophie, Kurdish Studies Journal 2023 (1), 285-299.