In consideration of the election of Trump in the US and the continued rise of right-wing populist and fascist parties across Europe, we are interested in engaging with the question to what extent the concept of “nationalism” as well as ‘national’ narrations have been lost to left-wing forces, or if they perhaps can be appropriated or fought over. On that wider question, we are very excited to read together the work of Dr. Rosa Burç, who has written extensively on Kurdish struggles in Turkey.

Dr. Rosa Burç is a political sociologist, who works as a research associate at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) as part of the German National Monitoring of Discrimination and Racism (NaDiRa) and the Migration Department. She is finalizing her PhD at the Center on Social Movement Studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence/Italy. She specialized in transnational orders of violence, mobilization in conflict, and political imaginaries of unprotected and stateless communities. In her comprehensive case study, she focuses on Kurdish transnational mobilization.

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Rosa Burç (2019) One state, one nation, one flag—one gender? HDP as a challenger of the Turkish nation state and its gendered perspectives, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 21:3, 319-334, DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1497755

Burç, R., Tokatlı, M. (2020). A Second Foundation? Constitution, Nation-Building, and the Deepening of Authoritarianism in Turkey. In: Rayner, J., Falls, S., Souvlis, G., Nelms, T.C. (eds) Back to the ‘30s? . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41586-0_8

Burc, Rosa. (2020). Non-territorial autonomy and gender equality: The case of the autonomous administration of north and east Syria - Rojava. Filozofija i drustvo. 31. 319-339. 10.2298/FID2003319B.