NEGOTIATING FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING AS A DIFFICULT CHARACTERISTIC IN KURDISH NATIONAL IDENTITY
NEGOTIATING FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING AS A DIFFICULT CHARACTERISTIC IN KURDISH NATIONAL IDENTITY
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DOI：
10.2478/njmr-2019-0011
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发表时间：
2019-09-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Johansen, R. Elise B.
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作者：
Lunde, Ingvild Bergom;Sagbakken, Mette;Johansen, R. Elise B.
基于挪威库尔德人的实地调查，本文探讨了参与者如何描述女性生殖器切割（FGC）在库尔德斯坦的存在，作为一个难以在公共场合解决的话题。对如何处理切割女性生殖器问题的看法从承认和直接面对到压制和拒绝将其作为库尔德人的做法。参与者将切割女性生殖器与"传统思维"和对女性性行为的看法联系起来，这些观念不适合妇女解放的新意识形态。基于如何管理国家认同建构中的"困难"特征的文献，我们认为，参与者对国家认同的"现代"和"传统"方面的谈判是应对FGC的一种策略。FGC有可能破坏国家认同。然而，我们有理由认为，谴责基于妇女解放的做法，可能会加强库尔德人基于人权和更温和的平等的民族愿望。
Based on fieldwork among Kurds in Norway, this article explores how participants described the presence of female genital cutting (FGC) in Kurdistan as a difficult topic to address in public. Perceptions of how FGC should be addressed ranged from acknowledging and directly confronting it to silencing and rejecting it as a Kurdish practice. The participants associated FGC with a "traditional mindset" and perceptions of female sexuality that did not readily fit into new ideologies of women's liberation. Based on literature on how to manage a "difficult" characteristic in national identity construction, we argue that the participants' negotiation of "modern" and "traditional" aspects of national identity is one strategy for dealing with FGC. FGC has the potential for spoiled national identity. However, we find reason to suggest that a condemnation of the practice based on women's liberation may strengthen the aspects of Kurdish national aspirations that are grounded in human rights and gentler equality.