Empowering Women in the Fractured Cities: Developing capacity, advocacy, and partnerships in South-eastern Turkey

为支离破碎的城市中的妇女赋权：在土耳其东南部发展能力、宣传和伙伴关系

• 批准号: ES/W012286/1
• 负责人: Ozlem Galip
• 金额: $ 29.91万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW012286%2F1
• 关键词: Empowering; Women; Fractured; Cities; Developing

This project will draw on original empirical research to explore how women and girls have been affected by urban warfare between Turkish state forces and Kurdish insurgents in majority-Kurdish populated urban residential areas of Southeast Turkey in 2015-16. Although c.355,000-500,000 people were displaced from their permanent residences and up to one million severely affected, there has been no in-depth analysis of the impacts on the region. Forced resettlement of up to 100,000 locals into state-built blocks by the Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKI) to support the government's capital inflows has not been studied either. In this context, this project, with its interdisciplinary and feminist approach, is pioneering, original and urgent. Studying displaced women and girls is particularly significant as those who have been relocated have been experiencing livelihood deprivation, marginalisation, exclusion, domestic violence, subjugation, and detachment from their daily socio-cultural practices and relations (DITAM, UN, International Crisis Group) and there is no support and advocacy structure in place to address their socio-cultural, economic and psychosocial issues. Four research questions drive the project: 1) To what extent and how do urban warfare, forced displacements and forced evictions impact on the physical, mental and psychosocial health and well-being of women and girls?2) What are the impacts of resettlement in state-built high-rise blocks on the socio-cultural and traditional home-based economic practices and overall well-being of women and girls?3) How do women and girls perceive their situation, and what are their aspirations, regarding empowerment, health, workload, access to resources, and both state and domestic violence against them with their new socio-spatial dynamics, and what are their adaptation strategies to cope with the changes? 4) What public services are currently available to women and girls, and how can the knowledge gap about their health and wellbeing be addressed, thereby the generation of synergies between research, advocacy and capacity building enabling effective services so that long-term health effects can be diminished, and possibilities of employment and safety enhanced?Through addressing these questions, the objectives are: (1) to elucidate the socio-cultural, health, well-being and economic impacts of armed conflicts, state interventions, forced displacement and resettlement in high-rise blocks on women and girls through five field sites; (2) to explore how women and girls have remade their domestic spaces and reshaped home-based economic practices in their new urban dwellings; (3) to identify these affected women and girls, building capacity amongst them, our partner organisations and related advocacy groups, practitioners and institutions at international, national and regional level; (4) to provide the agile response necessary to create knowledge for appropriate policymaking, actions and advocacy in the context of gender-based violence, marginalisation and deprivation in these cities. The project will directly benefit the local communities, but also surrounding countries suffering from conflict-induced displacements and Kurds in other sovereign countries due to internal political conjunctures, the Syrian civil war and the long-lasting impacts of ISIS in the Middle East. By adopting a gendered and multidisciplinary approach, this research would also have economic and societal impacts within and beyond the project's lifecycle, offering a framework for collaborative, democratic and egalitarian research with social justice and social change at its core; building the research and advocacy capacity of project partners and helping policymakers to formulate evidence-based policies to manage issues related to gender equality, large-scale forced displacement, resettlement, and sustainable and inclusive development in the post-conflict contexts of Global South.

该项目将借鉴原始的实证研究，探讨2015-16年土耳其东南部库尔德人口占多数的城市住宅区土耳其国家部队和库尔德叛乱分子之间的城市战争如何影响妇女和女孩。虽然约355 000至50万人流离失所，并有多达100万人受到严重影响，但对该区域的影响没有进行深入分析。土耳其住房发展管理局（TOKI）为了支持政府的资本流入，将多达10万名当地人强行安置到国家建造的街区中，这也没有得到研究。在这种背景下，这个跨学科和女权主义的项目具有开创性、原创性和紧迫性。研究流离失所的妇女和女孩尤其重要，因为那些被重新安置的妇女和女孩经历了生计剥夺，边缘化，排斥，家庭暴力，征服，脱离日常社会文化实践和关系（DITAM，联合国，国际危机组织），没有适当的支持和宣传结构来解决她们的社会文化，经济和心理社会问题。该项目有四个研究问题：1)城市战争、被迫流离失所和被迫驱逐对妇女和女孩的身心和社会心理健康和福祉的影响程度和方式？2)在国家建造的高层建筑中重新安置对社会文化和传统的以家庭为基础的经济做法以及妇女和女孩的整体福祉有什么影响？3)妇女和女孩如何看待自己的处境，她们在赋权、健康、工作量、获得资源以及针对她们的国家和家庭暴力以及新的社会空间动态方面的愿望是什么，她们有什么适应战略来应对这些变化？4)目前向妇女和女孩提供哪些公共服务，如何才能解决关于她们的健康和福祉的知识差距，从而在研究、宣传和能力建设之间产生协同作用，提供有效的服务，从而减少长期健康影响，增加就业和安全的可能性？通过解决这些问题，目标是：(1)通过五个实地地点阐明武装冲突、国家干预、被迫流离失所和高层建筑重新安置对妇女和女孩的社会文化、健康、福祉和经济影响；(2)探索妇女和女孩如何在新的城市住宅中重塑其家庭空间和重塑以家庭为基础的经济实践；(3)确定这些受影响的妇女和女孩，在她们、我们的伙伴组织和相关的倡导团体、从业者和机构之间建立能力，在国际、国家和地区层面；(4)在这些城市性别暴力、边缘化和贫困的背景下，提供必要的敏捷反应，为适当的政策制定、行动和宣传创造知识。该项目将直接惠及当地社区，也将惠及周边因冲突而流离失所的国家，以及因国内政治局势、叙利亚内战和ISIS在中东的长期影响而在其他主权国家遭受流离失所的库尔德人。通过采用性别和多学科方法，该研究还将在项目生命周期内外产生经济和社会影响，为以社会正义和社会变革为核心的协作、民主和平等研究提供框架；建设项目合作伙伴的研究和宣传能力，帮助决策者制定基于证据的政策，以管理与性别平等、大规模被迫流离失所、重新安置以及全球南方冲突后背景下可持续和包容性发展有关的问题。