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About Deniz Kandiyoti

Deniz Kandiyoti is Professor of Development Studies at theSchool of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is the author of Concubines, Sisters and Citizens: Identities and Social Transformation (1997 in Turkish ) the editor of Fragments of Culture: The Everyday of Modern Turkey (2002), Gendering the Middle East (1996) , Women, Islam and the State (1991) and numerous articles on gender, Islam, development and state policies. She is the founding Chair of the Center of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus (2001-2004) at SOAS and editor of the journal Central Asian Survey.

Articles by Deniz Kandiyoti

Tuesday 8th March

Promise and peril: women and the ‘Arab spring’

Deniz Kandiyoti, 8 March 2011
Women were visible and effective in the popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt. Will this moment of opening yield empowering outcomes? Deniz Kandiyoti argues that the greatest peril lies in truncated or aborted transitions where women’s rights are offered up as an item of populist compromise
Wednesday 5th January

A tangled web: the politics of gender in Turkey

Deniz Kandiyoti, 5 January 2011
Although the women’s movement in Turkey has scored major victories in the realm of legal reforms, there is a widening gap between rights in law and realities on the ground. How secure are these gains?
Friday 23rd July

Not the Church, Not the State? Gender equality in the crossfire

Deniz Kandiyoti, 23 July 2010
The challenge to platforms for gender equality comes not just from actors with fundamentalist agendas, but from a conjuncture where women’s rights have been opportunistically instrumentalized to serve geopolitical goals, and neo-liberal policies have severed social justice from gender equality concerns
Thursday 20th May

Conflict and Custom in the New World Order : a conversation with Gita Sahgal

Deniz Kandiyoti, 20 May 2010
"There is a struggle to be had. It is time to challenge the hegemony of the formal human rights movement and its uncritical embrace of identity politics". Gita Sahgal in conversation with Deniz Kandiyoti. Part two.
Monday 19th April

'Soft law' and hard choices: a conversation with Gita Sahgal

Deniz Kandiyoti, 19 April 2010
A conversation exploring the challenges posed by the international conjuncture following the “war on terror” for gender justice and women’s rights. Part one
Friday 29th January

Negotiating with the Taliban: the view from below

Deniz Kandiyoti, 29 January 2010
While the only official woman delegate in the Afghan mission to the London Conference pleaded that women’s rights must not be sacrificed on the altar of security concerns, women’s rights activists who had also travelled to London brought their own message
Monday 2nd November

Gender in Afghanistan: pragmatic activism

Deniz Kandiyoti, 2 November 2009
War and mismanagement have produced a breakdown of trust, decency and reciprocity in Afghan society. Gender activism needs to be understood in that context, and not be tempted by crude cultural determinism.
Wednesday 13th May

Andijan: prelude to a massacre

Deniz Kandiyoti, 13 May 2009
The post-Soviet collapse underlay the tragedy in eastern Uzbekistan on 13 May 2005 (archive) 
Tuesday 15th October

Where is Islam going?: responses to Werner Schiffauer

Deniz Kandiyoti, 15 October 2002
Werner Schiffauer’s intimate study of the politics of a Turkish Islamic community in Germany was part of the Europe and Islam series of talks. At London’s Goethe Institute in July, Werner Schiffauer and Deniz Kandiyoti discussed with the audience the prospects for ‘reformation’ in Islam, the relation between citizenship and diaspora politics in Germany and Britain, and the consequences for democracy of educational and generational change in Muslim communities.
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