Käser, Isabel; Mahmoud, Houzan (27 April 2023). Art Making in Iraqi Kurdistan: Violence, Body Politics and the Struggle for Space. In: Middle East Centre.
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)In the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) young artist and activists are increasingly moving away from established party politics or women’s organisations and are creating new forms of engagement, for example through the production of artistic knowledge focusing on gender, body, and sexuality. Challenging conservative gender norms and relations as well as questioning who controls which body – men, the family unit, the government, religious forces, consumer capitalism – are at the heart of many of the artistic explorations that we have analysed throughout this project. Overall, we found five overarching themes in the artworks: 1. violence, isolation, trauma, 2. women’s solitude, or women reclaiming their time and space, 3. a re-envisioning of intimacy, 4. modernised Kurdish folklore and tradition, 5. body politics post-2014.
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Other |
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Käser, Isabel Martina |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Jana Samira Lamatsch |
Date Deposited: |
25 Mar 2024 16:22 |
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25 Mar 2024 16:22 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/194453 |
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