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  • 4 - Mothers and Martyrs: The Struggle for Life and the Commemoration of Death in Maxmûr Camp

  • Isabel Käser, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement
    Published online:
    13 August 2021
    Print publication:
    26 August 2021, pp 130-161

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 turns to martyr mothers in Maxmûr. This camp, with its violent history, is highly militarised and a place where the boundaries between the armed and civil spheres are non-existent. Almost every week someone from the camp falls at one of the many frontlines in the region, while the families in the camps, and especially the mothers, continue to live life according to the party’s liberation ideology. I show how the militant mothers of the camp play an integral part in continuing not only camp life but the struggle for freedom according to the PKK more broadly. I map out three key sites of daily life for mothers: first, the martyr house and death wakes; second, camp work; and third, the private house. Throughout I discuss how mothers organise and perform rituals of mourning, remembrance and resistance. Hereby, the martyr culture is a key location where a sense of belonging and sacrifice but also a vision and hope for a future nation are negotiated.