Activism and Women's NGOs in Turkey PDF Download

Author: Asuman Özgür Keysan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786726319
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and political life. Much feminist scholarship sees civil society and feminism as incompatible a result. But scholars and activists are currently trying to update this view by looking at women's positions in civil society and women's activism. This book contributes to this new research, arguing that civil society is a contested terrain where women can negotiate and successfully challenge dominant discourses in society. The book is based on interviews with women activists from ten women's organizations in Turkey. Foregrounding the voices of women, the book answers the question "How do women's NGOs contribute to civil society in the Middle East?”. At a time when civil society is being promoted and institutionalised in Turkey, particularly by the EU, this book demonstrates that women's organisations can help achieve women's emancipation, even if there are significant differences in their approaches and ideas.

Author: Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438447736
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey uncovers how, why, and to what extent Turkish women, in addition to the Turkish state and the European Union, have been involved in gender policy changes in Turkey. Through analysis of the role of multiple actors at the subnational, national, and supranational levels, Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall provides a detailed account of policy diffusion and feminist involvement in policymaking. Contextualizing the meaning of gender equality and multiple approaches to women's rights, she highlights a pivotal but neglected dimension of scholarship on Turkey's candidacy for European Union membership. This book represents one of the few works providing a multilevel analysis of gender policy in predominantly Muslim countries, and highlights Turkey's role at a time of swift structural changes to several political regimes in the Middle East. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched—an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1708.

Author: Nüket Kardam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351143867
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Examining the rise of global women's human rights and their interpretation and application to Turkey, Nüket Kardam provides an in-depth study that applies global norms - including women's empowerment, overcoming violence against women, and gender and good governance - to a specific locale in order to examine events post application. The volume examines whether a gender equality regime exists and looks into the Turkish attempt at compliance. Moreover, it analyzes the tension between abstract universalism, Western enlightenment values, and local values and identities, including the role of Islam regarding women's rights. This groundbreaking study also includes research on the women's movement in Turkey, its discourses and its relationship with the state from the 1980s onwards, during which time multilateral and bilateral donors, and the European Union came to exert more influence, and new civil society partnerships were formed with the state.

Author: Prof Dr Ömer Çaha
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472410092
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Focusing on three important interrelated issues, Women and Civil Society in Turkey challenges the classical definition, developed in the West, of civil society as an equivalent of the public sphere in which women are excluded. First it shows how feminist movements have developed a new definition of civil society to include women. Second it draws attention to the role of women in the modernization of Turkey with special reference to the debate on the possibility of an indigenous feminist movement. Finally, it underlines the contribution of feminist, Islamic and Kurdish women’s movements in the transition from an ideologically constructed, uniform public sphere to a multi-public domain. Giving attention to the influence of diverse women’s movements over Turkish political values this book sheds light into the issue of how a feminine civil society has been constructed as part of a plural public space in Turkey. Ömer Çaha argues that this new public realm is the product of values and institutions which have been developed by diverse women’s groups who have succeeded in eliminating the traditional barricades between public and domestic spheres and in steering women into public life without sacrificing their own values.

Author: Asuman Özgür Keysan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786736373
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and political life. Much feminist scholarship sees civil society and feminism as incompatible a result. But scholars and activists are currently trying to update this view by looking at women's positions in civil society and women's activism. This book contributes to this new research, arguing that civil society is a contested terrain where women can negotiate and successfully challenge dominant discourses in society. The book is based on interviews with women activists from ten women's organizations in Turkey. Foregrounding the voices of women, the book answers the question "How do women's NGOs contribute to civil society in the Middle East?”. At a time when civil society is being promoted and institutionalised in Turkey, particularly by the EU, this book demonstrates that women's organisations can help achieve women's emancipation, even if there are significant differences in their approaches and ideas.

Author: Selin Çağatay
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303084451X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common? And what can actors who struggle for rights and justice in these contexts learn from each other? Based on a multisited ethnography of feminist and LGBTI+ activisms across Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries, this Open Access book explores transnational struggles on various levels, from the micro-scale of the everyday to large-scale, spectacular events. Drawing on ethnographic insights and encounters from various sites, this book conceptualizes resistance as situated in the grey zone between barely perceptible, even hidden or covert, forms of mundane activist practices and highly visible street protests, gathering large crowds. Taking the reader beyond the dichotomies of visible/invisible and public/private, this book advances new understandings of resistance, solidarity, and activism in transnationalizing feminist and queer struggles, illustrated by rich ethnographic case studies from Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey.

Author: Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Droits des femmes
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Extrait du résumé : "Les mouvements féminins du Moyen-Orient se distinguent les uns des autres par leur évolution historique, aussi bien que par leurs idées et pratiques actuelles. Pourtant, ils se ressemblent en ce sens qu'ils ont en commun plusieurs facteurs historiques et politiques ... . Les spécificités et différences peuvent être regroupées sous des thèmes généraux, comme le montrent à l'évidence deux études de cas, l'Egypte et la Turquie, dont il est question dans ce document. L'analyse des mouvements féminins en Egypte et en Turquie passe par une brève exploration du contexte historiques, c'est à dire de la naissance et du développemnt d'organisations féminines et d'une pensée féministe. La description du contexte historique montre quelle importance il peut avoir pour comprendre les mouvements féminis actuels dans la région. ... Le contexte contemporain amène à débattre de la topographie propre à la vie politique nationale, qui constitue la toile de fond sur laquelle s'inscrit le militantisme des féministes actuelles. L'auteur prend en considération, non seulement les questions relatives à l'économie politique, aux rapports entre l'état et la société, à la politique des partis, mais aussi le rôle des affiliations et relations internationales. ... Les comparaison des deux études de cas laisse à penser que, malgré des contextes historiques et politiques différents, les mouvements féminins des deux pays ont, ces dernières années, remis en question des notions couramment acceptées de la culture et institutions politiques. En élargissant le champ d'étude et en se penchant aussi sur le militantisme féministe dans d'autres pays de la région, il apparaît que les mouvements féminins du Moyen-Orient peuvent être un facteur de démocratisation mais sont très limités dans leur action par les structures sociales et politiques en place, le manque d'objectifs institutionnels clairs et de politiques publiques ambitieuses."

Author: Aziz Choudry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780322593
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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The growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and environmental justice? How has it challenged - or reinforced - the forces of capitalism and colonialism? And what political, economic, social and cultural interests does this serve? NGOization - the professionalization and institutionalization of social action - has long been a hotly contested issue in grassroots social movements and communities of resistance. This book pulls together for the first time unique perspectives of social struggles and critically engaged scholars from a wide range of geographical and political contexts to offer insights into the tensions and challenges of the NGO model, while considering the feasibility of alternatives.

Author: Myra Marx Ferree
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814727942
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Increasingly feminists around the world have successfully campaigned for recognition of women's full personhood and empowerment. Global Feminism explores the social and political developments that have energized this movement. Drawn from an international group of scholars and activists, the authors of these original essays assess both the opportunities that transnationalism has created and the tensions it has inadvertently fostered. By focusing on both the local and global struggles of today's feminist activists this important volume reveals much about women's changing rights, treatment and impact in the global world. Contributors: Melinda Adams, Aida Bagic, Yakin Ertürk, Myra Marx Ferree, Amy G. Mazur, Dorothy E. McBride, Hilkka Pietilä, Tetyana Pudrovska, Margaret Snyder, Sarah Swider, Aili Mari Tripp, Nira Yuval-Davis.

Author: Isabel Käser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009021893
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455

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Amidst ongoing wars and insecurities, female fighters, politicians and activists of the Kurdish Freedom Movement are building a new political system that centres gender equality. Since the Rojava Revolution, the international focus has been especially on female fighters, a gaze that has often been essentialising and objectifying, brushing over a much more complex history of violence and resistance. Going beyond Orientalist tropes of the female freedom fighter, and the movement's own narrative of the 'free woman', Isabel Käser looks at personal trajectories and everyday processes of becoming a militant in this movement. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, with women politicians, martyr mothers and female fighters, she looks at how norms around gender and sexuality have been rewritten and how new meanings and practices have been assigned to women in the quest for Kurdish self-determination. Her book complicates prevailing notions of gender and war and creates a more nuanced understanding of the everyday embodied epistemologies of violence, conflict and resistance.