Politicizing Disability/Disablement: A Case of Hunger-Strike/Death-Fast by a Kurdish Political Prisoner in Turkey

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[1] Allman, Paula. On Marx: An Introduction to the Revolutionary Intellect of Karl Marx. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2007.

[2] —–. Revolutionary Social Transformation: Democratic Hopes, Political Possibilities and Critical Education. Westport: Praeger, 1999.

[3] Arslan, Sevda. “The psychological profiles of ex-prisoner torture survivors who served in Diyarbakır Prison between the years of 1980-1984.“ openaccess.bilgi.edu.tr. Istanbul Bilgi University. 2011. http://openaccess.bilgi.edu.tr:8080/xmlui/handle/11411/635 (accessed July 31, 2018).

[4] Austin, Andrew and Laurel Phoenix. “The Neoconservative Assault on the Earth: The Environmental Imperialism of the Bush Administration.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 16, 2 (2005): 25–44. doi: 10.1080/10455750500108278

[5] Başer, Bahar. “Kurdistan and Kurdish Politics.” In Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. January 21, 2016. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199743292/obo-9780199743292-0131.xml (accessed November 11, 2017).

[6] Bannerji, Himani. Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender, and Idealogy. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2005.

[7] —–. Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism and Anti-racism. Toronto: Women's Press, 1995.

[8] Bell, Chris. “Introducing White Disability Studies A Modest Proposal.” In The Disability Studies Reader. Leonard (eds.) Davis. New York: Routledge, 2006.

[9] Bray, Ian, Sean Kenny and Shaheen Chughtai. “Rethinking disasters: Why Death and Destruction Is Not Nature's Fault But Human Failure.” Oxfam International. April 1, 2008. http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/rethinking-disasters-why-death-and-destruction-is-not-natures-fault-but-human-f-126069 (accessed June 4, 2017).

[10] Briarpatch. The Next Generation of Land Defenders 5 Young People Step Up Against Nuclear Waste. January 1, 2012. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/the-next-generation-of-land-defenders (accessed April 18, 2017).

[11] Chen, Mel Y. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Durhum and London: Duke University Press, 2012.

[12] Corker, Mairian and Tom Shakespeare. Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory. London: Continuum Publishing House, 2002.

[13] Demirel, Tanel. “The Turkish Military's Decision to Intervene: 12 September 1980 Armed Forces and Society.” Armed Forces and Society 29, 2 (2003): 254–280. doi: 10.1177/0095327X0302900206

[14] Desai, Radhika. Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire. The Future of World Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2013.

[15] DoǦru, Havva Ezgi. “Living to the Tell the Tale: Reading 12 September Coup D'etat through the Novels Written by Socialist and Nationalist Authors.” Unpublished Thesis. Istanbul: YOK Database, 2009.

[16] Dossa, Parin. “Creating Alternative and Demedicalized Spaces: Testimonial Narrative on Disability, Culture, and Racialization.” Journal of International Women's Studies 9,3 (2008): 79–101.

[17] Eisenhardt, Kathleen M. “Building Theories From Case Study Research.” In The Qualitative Researcher's Companion. A. Michael Huberman and Matthew B. Miles (eds.). New York: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2002.

[18] Erevelles, Nirmala. Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

[19] Foster, John B. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000.

[20] Gemici, Basak. “Dynamics of Collective Action in Turkish Prisons: Comparative Analysis of Mamak and Diyarbakir Prisons Between 1980 and 1985.” Master's Thesis. April 14, 2016. http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29071/1/FINAL%20MA%20THESIS%20BASAK.pdf (accessed November 10, 2017).

[21] Goldman, Michael. “Ecology, Imperialism and the Contradictions of Capitalism.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 16, 4 (2005): 141–143. doi: 10.1080/10455750500376099

[22] Goodley, Dan. “Dis/entangling critical disability studies.” Disability and Society 28, 5 (2013): 631–645. doi: 10.1080/09687599.2012.717884

[23] Gorman, Rachel. “Disablement In and For Itself: Towards a ‘Global’ Idea of Disability.” Somatechnics 6, 2 (2016): 249–261. doi: 10.3366/soma.2016.0194

[24] —–. “Class Consciousness, Disability, and Social Exclusion: A Relational/Reflexive Analysis of Disability Culture.” Dissertation Abstracts International, 66–06, Section: B, (2005).

[25] Grech, Shaun. “Disability, Poverty and Development: Critical Reflections on the Majority World Debate.” Disability and Society 24, 6 (2009): 771–784. doi: 10.1080/09687590903160266

[26] Harvey, David. “The ‘New’ Imperialism: Accumulation By Dispossession.” Socialist Register, 40 (2004): 61–86.

[27] Hassanpour, Amir. “Nation and Nationalism.” In Marxism and Feminism. Shahrzad Mojab (ed.). London: Zed Books, 2015.

[28] Hines, Nico. “The Ten Most Notorious Jails in the World.” The Times, April 28, 2008.

[29] Human Rights Foundation of Turkey. File of Torture : Deaths in Detention places or prisons (12 September 1980-12 September 1995). Records, Ankara: Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Publications, 1996.

[30] Marx, Karl. Theses on Feuerbach. Peking: Foreign Language Press, [1845], 1976.

[31] Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The German Ideology, Including Theses on Feuerbach. New York: Prometheus Books, 1998 [1932].

[32] McDowall, David. A Modern History of the Kurds. London: I. B. Tauris, 2000.

[33] McLaren, Peter, and Ramin Farahmandpur. “Teaching Against Globalization and The New Imperialism: Toward A Revolutionary Pedagogy.” Journal of Teacher Education 52, 2 (2001): 136–150. doi: 10.1177/0022487101052002005

[34] Meekosha, Helen. “Decolonising Disability: Thinking and Acting Globally.” Disability and Society 26, 6 (2011): 667–682. doi: 10.1080/09687599.2011.602860

[35] Meyer, Stephen. “The Social Model of Disability Under the Shadow of the Revolution: Ex-combatants Negotiating Identity in Nicaragua.” (Qualitative Sociology 37, 4 (2014): 403–424. doi: 10.1007/s11133-014-9284-x

[36] Mojab, Shahrzad. Women of a Non-state Nation: The Kurds. Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2001.

[37] Murray, Christopher J. L., and Alan D. Lopez. “The Global Burden of Disease and Injury Series: A Comprehensive Assessment of Mortality and Disability from Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors in 1990 and Projected to 2020.” The Harvard School of Public Health and World Bank. (1996) http://www.who.int/iris/handle/10665/41864 (accessed June 4, 2017).

[38] Kazemi, Sona. “A Step toward A Conceptualization of Transnational Disability: Engaging the Dialectics of Geopolitics, Third World, and Imperialism.” Critical Disability Discourses 8 (2017): 31–63.

[39] Key, Suzie, Julian K-C Ma and Pascal MW Drake. “Genetically Modified Plants and Human Health.” The Journal of the Royal Sociey of Medicine 101, 6 (2008): 290–298. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2008.070372

[40] Ofra, Bengio. “Game Changers: Kurdish Women in Peace and War.” Middle East Journal 70, 1 (2016): 30–48.

[41] Oftedal, Per. “Genetic Damage Following Nuclear War.” In Effects of Nuclear War on Health and Health Services. World Health Organization. Geneva: WHO, 1984: 163–174.

[42] Oguz, N. Y. and Steven H. Miles. “The Physician and Prison Hunger Strikes: Reflecting on the Experience in Turkey.” Global Medical Ethics 31, 3 (2005): 169–172. doi: 10.1136/jme.2004.006973

[43] Oliver, Mike and Colin Barnes. “Back to the future: The World Report on Disability.” Disability and Society, 27, 4 (2012): 575–579. doi: 10.1080/09687599.2012.686781

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[47] Tremain, Shelley. “On the Government of Disability.” Social Theory and Practice, 27(4): 617–620 (2001). doi: 10.5840/soctheorpract200127432

[48] Van Bruinessen, Martin. “From Adela Khanum to Leyla Zana: Women as Political Leaders in Kurdish History.” In Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds. Shahrzad Mojab (ed.). Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, Inc., 2001.

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