Weeping without tears: Kurdish female kolbers and gendered necropolitics of state in Iran

This article disentangles the nexus between coloniality, territoriality, and gendered necropolitics of state in Iran and how it shapes the lives of the Kurdish female cross‐border laborers (kolbers, in Kurdish) in Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat, in Kurdish). Drawing on Achille Mbembe's notion of “...

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Published in:	Gender, work, and organization Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 843 - 867
Main Authors:	Mohammadpour, Ahmad, Javaheri, Aso
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2025
Subjects:	Biopolitics coloniality Crying Death & dying death‐world Discipline Endangered female kolbers Females Gender Iran Kurdish people Meaning Middle Eastern cultural groups necropolitics Political violence precarity Punishment Rojhelat Territoriality Truth Women Iran
ISSN:	0968-6673, 1468-0432
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