Blar i Department of Social Anthropology på forfatter "Rudi, Axel"
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Death as Victory, Victory as Death : Violence, Martyrdom, and the Cosmology of Revolution in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Rudi, Axel (Doctoral thesis, 2019-12-05)The central investigation of the thesis concerns the nature of revolution in the Kurdish freedom movement, i.e. the social movement affiliated with the guerilla organization, the PKK. The main argument forwarded is that ... -
The Egalitarian King? Abdullah Öcalan and his evolving role in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Rudi, Axel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Kurdish movement has often been touted as an egalitarian struggle, and, in many ways, rightly so. However, the movement's relation to its undisputed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, has remained relatively unexamined. This ... -
Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks
Rudi, Axel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Reflecting on personal experiences from conducting fieldwork in Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan between 2015 and 2017, the article supplements existing literature on how to navigate dangerous fieldwork by considering the limits ... -
People vs. peoples: sacrifice and the foundations for sovereignty in 1640’s England and contemporary northeast Syria
Rudi, Axel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Engaging with state-centric perspectives on sovereignty, and particularly Giorgio Agamben's work, this article argues that despite sovereignty's permanence at the level of the state, the principles upon which it is built ...