The arms industry is widely known to be one of the most corrupt and deadly sectors in the world. Often exempt from transparency and accountability, this industry produces the weapons and technology necessary for the wars that kill, disappear or

#5 Violence and Resistance in the Lives of Kurdish Women: From Dêrsim to Rojava

Jul 1st, 2022 1h 21m

Historically, the Turkish state's relationship to women at the margins of its power has been characterized by violence and dispossession. Even as the Turkish Republic, founded in 1923, brought about progressive reforms in society, such as educa

#4 Palestinian Women's Struggles against Colonization & Patriarchy

Jul 1st, 2022 1h 1m

Palestinian women have a long history of struggling on multiple fronts. Throughout the history of the Israeli occupation, women organized themselves politically, socially, culturally and also militarily in the national liberation struggle. They

#3 Theoretically Speaking: Capitalist Patriarchy and the Gendered War

Jul 1st, 2022 1h 27m

This episode of Women & War does not focus on one particular context or region, but rather aims to give a sense of the ways in which feminists theorize war, violence, occupation, and colonization. How to connect everyday experiences and large-s

#2 Women and Genocide: Insights from the Armenian Case

Jul 1st, 2022 1h 17m

Knowledge production on genocide has historically tended to downplay or ignore the gendered logics that underpin the phenomenon. This has been challenged by feminist scholarship on war and political violence. The Armenian Genocide was an episod

#1 Women's Struggles in Afghanistan: Hazara Women and the Return of the Taliban

Jul 1st, 2022 1h 18m

In August 2021, the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan after the US administration under Joe Biden decided to pull out of the country after two decades. As entire infrastructures for politics, civil society, and public services collapsed,

#0: Introduction to Women & War: A Feminist Podcast

Jun 30th, 2022 17m 51s

Welcome to Women and War: a feminist podcast. This podcast is created by Dilar Dirik, a political sociologist at the University of Oxford (Refugee Studies Centre & Lady Margaret Hall) and has been made possible through funding from the Universi

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