Journal Articles
2023
Projecting a Body Politic: Photographs, Time, and Immortality in the Kurdish Movement.
Anthropological Quarterly 96 (2): 307-333.
On the potency of photography to project a revolutionary body politic.
On the gendered expectations of loyalty and dangers of treason in resistance movements.
How are resistance movements able to sustain political commitment and morale amid ongoing state violence? Introduction to a special issue on loyalty, critique, and treason within the resistance.
2019
On turning voices into archives and the potentialities of sound as historical critique.
2018
‘It Used to Be Forbidden’: Kurdish Women and the Limits of Gaining Voice.
Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 14(1): 3-24.
On the limits of “gaining voice” and the dilemmas that ensue when voices become audible in public.
2017
Voice.
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology.
How has voice featured in anthropological analysis and what might it tell us about our
everyday lives?
What’s the appeal of writing and authorship in a context marked by legacies of silencing?
As a liberatory framework emerging from the Kurdish movement, jineology places women at the center of the struggle against patriarchy, capitalism and the state
2016
On natural and political disasters and the difficulty to imagine futures in the midst of ruination.
2015
On the making of cultural heritage as a sphere distinct from politics.
Book Chapters
2019
“Tracing Connections: Kurdish Women Singers and the Ambiguities of Owning Oral Tradition.”
In Diversity and Contact Among Singer-Poet
Traditions in Eastern Anatolia edited by Martin Greve, Wendelmoet Hamelink and Ulaş Özdemir, 77-93. Baden-Baden: Ergon.
On how imperatives to “have a voice” transform oral genres from collective commons into personal property
2018
In Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies: Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field
edited by Bahar Baser, Begüm Zorlu and Yasin Duman, 69-83. Lanham: Lexington Books.
On the practical challenges and ethical dilemmas of conducting fieldwork in politically polarized settings.
2014
“2011 Van Depremi: Bir mücadele alanı olarak ‘yardım’ (The 2011 Van Earthquake: ‘Aid’ as a field of contestation).”
With Aylin Çelik. In Sınır Bilgisi: Siyasal İktidar, Toplumsal Mekan ve Kadına Yönelik Şiddet (Boundary Knowledge: Political Power, Social Space and Violence against Women)edited by Elif Çelebi, Didem Havlioğlu and Ebru Kayaalp. Istanbul: Ayizi. (non-refereed)
On contestations surrounding “aid” following the Van earthquakes of 2011.
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