1st Edition
Kurdish Politics After the Rojava Revolution Transnational Engagement and the Gendered Nation
Introduction (Theoretical Frameworks: IR, Transnational Feminism, and Vulnerability); Chapter 1: Historical and empirical background: Rojava and the Kurds in the West; Chapter 2: Transnational challenges of Kurdish identity: A contested identity in the Middle East and the West; Chapter 3: Reconfiguration of Kurdish political actors in the West in the post-Rojava Revolution era; Chapter 4: Revolution in practice: Bridging the gap between idealism and pragmatism; Chapter 5: The Battle of Kobane: A battle of multiple symbolic meanings; Chapter 6: Rojava under critical eyes; Chapter 7: The West's double standard foreign policies toward the Kurds with focus on Rojava; Chapter 8: Decriminalizing the PKK: Diplomatic challenges and efforts; Chapter 9: Transnational Kurdish feminism: Feminization of Kurdish politics and Rojava’s Gender Revolution across the Middle East and the West; Chapter 10: Kurds as driving force of democratization in the Post-Rojava Middle East; Conclusion: Reimagining democracy beyond the nation-state.
Biography
Soheila Shahriari is a political scientist and researcher affiliated with EHESS in Paris. Her work focuses on democracy, gender studies, international relations theory, transnational political mobilizations, vulnerability and political resistance, and Middle Eastern politics and its diasporas. She holds degrees from Sorbonne University and EHESS. She currently teaches courses on vulnerability and political resistance at Paris-Saclay University, as well as Religion and International Relations and Media and Politics at Rouen University in France.
