Browsing by Author "Akyuz, Selin"

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    Faces and phases of female empowerment: Women's cooperatives in Turkey
    (Oxford University Press, 2021) Cinar, Kursat; Akyuz, Selin; Uğur-Çınar, Meral; Öncüler-Yayalar, Emine
    This article provides an in-depth look at women’s empowerment through women’s cooperatives. Drawing on evidence from a diverse set of women’s cooperatives in Turkey, the article investigates the prospects and constraints of women’s empowerment in contexts lacking an enabling macro-institutional framework and societal structure. Listening to the real-life stories of women from different socioeconomic and political backgrounds, we explore how and to what extent members experience empowerment in their lives after joining the cooperatives. We find that, even under political and societal constraints, women experience economic, psychological, social, and organizational empowerment, though the extent of such empowerment varies across cases.
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    “We are forgotten”: forced migration, sexual and gender-based violence, and coronavirus disease-2019
    (Sage Publications, 2021-09-17) Phillimore, J.; Pertek, S.; Akyuz, Selin; Darkal, H.; Hourani, J.; McKnight, P.; Ozcurumez, Saime; Taal, S.
    Adopting a structural violence approach, this article explores, with survivors and practitioners, how early coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic conditions affected forced migrant sexual and gender-based violence survivors’ lives. Introducing a new analytical framework combining violent abandonment, slow violence, and violent uncertainty, we show how interacting forms of structural violence exacerbated by pandemic conditions intensified existing inequalities. Abandonment of survivors by the state increased precarity, making everyday survival more difficult, and intensified prepandemic slow violence, while increased uncertainty heightened survivors’ psychological distress. Structural violence experienced during the pandemic can be conceptualized as part of the continuum of violence against forced migrants, which generates gendered harm.