Videos - Nazan Üstündağ

CIIS Anthropology and Social Change Visiting Scholars Series

The Obsession of the Turkish State with the Kurds This presentation will outline the Kurdish movement in Turkey and address the obsession of the Turkish state with Kurds…

Kurdistan as a Site of Critique: Politics of Decolonization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbh9uAWV1MQ CSCUNES Center for Solidarity Kurdistan as a Site of Critique: Politics of Decolonization Speakers: Dilar Dirik, Refugee Studies Center, Oxford University Nazan Üstündağ, Independent Scholar Decolonization…

Öcalan’s Paradigm: Sociology of Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1X57Uvt6cg The webinar is about Abdullah Öcalan's perspectives on power and freedom. It addresses how Öcalan conceptualizes power and hierarchy and how he proposes a sociology of…

Abdullah Öcalan and Social Self-Defense – An Interview with Nazan Üstündağ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxPrT9K643M&feature=emb_title Connor Hayes speaks with Dr. Nazan Üstündağ, a fellow with the Gerda Henkel Stiftung Patrimonies Program, about the concept and practice of social self-defense, in particular as…

GLOBAL UPRISING: Space & Time II: The Square and the Commune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nxzzuf4GWg

The Relationship between Organisation and Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBDTfz2IOXk Organizedness is one of the main principles of the Kurdish women's movement's 'women's liberation ideology'. Unlike liberal ideas around freedom, the Kurdish freedom movement believes that…

Transformative justice & anti-carceral politics

https://www.facebook.com/Alliance-of-MENA-Socialists-2196931800604746/videos/313140416385189/ Transformative Justice seeks to build a anti-carceral politics while engaging in harm/violence reduction. This panel will unpack different understandings of abolitionism generated from an internationalist & anti-capitalist…