Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso de Graduação
Gênero, nacionalismo e revolução: o movimento de libertação curdo
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SIQUEIRA, L. F. Gênero, nacionalismo e revolução: o movimento de libertação curdo. 2022. 63 p.
Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Relações Internacionais)-
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, 2022.
Autor
Siqueira, Laiza Fortes
Institución
Resumen
The Kurdish Liberation Movement was restructured in Turkey in the 1970s, and in 1978 the
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was founded, which would become the protagonist of the
Kurdish resistance struggle. Even with women participating in the agendas and in the
movement as a whole, the insertion of agendas on gender and nationalism began to intensify
from the 1990s onwards, with women seeking to expose and validate their experiences as
women and Kurds within society. Needing to find a new meaning and purpose in the Kurdish
struggle, during his years in prison, the PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan reshaped the party's
ideological foundation and formulated the Democratic Confederalism, a form of self-
government based on direct democracy. With a critical stance on the three main structures of
society - State, Capital and Patriarchy -, this new form of government seeks in the liberation of
women the key to freeing themselves from all forms of oppression. After the power vacuum
left by the Syrian Civil War, ongoing since 2011, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), sister
party of the PKK, takes possession of Rojava, the Syrian Kurdistan. Since then, aiming at a
new political path in the region, Rojava has become the center for the implementation of
Democratic Confederalism, even with the daily difficulties of a conflict on numerous fronts.
Thus, the question that guides this research is: how did Democratic Confederalism change the
roles of women throughout the Kurdish self-determination movement in Rojava? Therefore,
analyzing the roles that Kurdish women played in the self-determination and revolutionary
movement in Rojava is the main objective of this work. Which will be explored from the specific
objectives: (I) to analyze the formation of the PKK and the development of the armed struggle
until the ideological turn, and how this led to the Rojava revolution; (II) analyze the precepts
and objectives of Democratic Confederalism, in order to understand how women occupy a
central position in its implementation; and, finally (III) to identify how the roles of Kurdish
women have changed over time. This research will be qualitative, with a descriptive approach
method. As a method of procedure, the descriptive method was chosen. Finally, indirect
documentation will be used as a research technique, based on bibliographic research.