This ethnographic volume features fresh research by junior scholars of contemporary Kurdish studies. The contributions are assembled around four themes: women's participation, paramilitary, space, and infrapolitics of resistance.

• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Women’s Participation
  • 1 “Mountain Life Is Difficult but Beautiful!”
  • 2 The Kurdish Women’s Political Organizing from the FeministNeo-Institutionalist Perspective
• Part II: Paramilitary
  • 3 The Emergence of Paramilitary Groups in Turkey in the 1980s
  • 4 Confession as Disavowal
• Part III: Space
  • 5 Accumulation by Dispossession as a Common Point in Urbanization Politics in Diyarbakir
  • 6 Autonomous Spaces and Constructive Resistance in Northern Kurdistan
• Part IV: Infrapolitics of Resistance
  • 7 Challenging State Borders
  • 8 Toward a Resistance Literature
• INDEX
• Author Biographies