Minoo Alinia

Honor and violence against women in Iraqi Kurdistan

1. Locating the Book 2. Framing the Historical and Political Context of Oppression and Resistance in Iraqi Kurdistan 3. Intersecting Oppression and the Multiplex of Violence against Women 4. Policing Patriarchy: Honour, Violence, and Manhood 5. Women Opposing Violence: Room for Resistance and Spaces of Empowerment 6. Forced or Arranged Marriage and Womens Responses 7. Suicide as Protest 8. Concluding Remarks

On Black Feminist Thought: thinking oppression and resistance through intersectional paradigm

Located in African American womens everyday and historical experiences of oppression and resistance, black feminist epistemology and critical social theory, Patricia Hill Collins raises the intellectual level in all these arenas. Developed through a dynamic interaction with black womens everyday struggles, black feminist thought is important not only for its contribution to critical social theories and methodologies, but also for providing important knowledge for the use of social justice movements. It uses intersectional analysis to shed light on the relationships between the structural, symbolic and everyday aspects of domination and individual and collective struggles in various domains of social life. Collins offers an interpretive framework for understanding the experiences of African American women. However, the significance of black feminist thought reaches far beyond US and black American communities. This article is a reading of Collins’s concept of intersectionality, the relationship between oppression and resistance, and the politics of empowerment.

Temporal and generational impact on identity, home(land) and politics of belonging among the Kurdish diaspora

Abstract The purpose of this article is to examine the experiences of two generations among the Kurdish diaspora in Sweden: those who migrated as adults and those who were born and/or raised in Sweden. The focus will be on issues of identity, home(land) and politics of belonging with regard to generational and temporal aspects. We will argue that there are significant differences among the older and younger generations with regard to their experiences that demand different theoretical and analytical conceptualisations