{"id":16148,"date":"2026-09-01T18:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=16148"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:01:02","slug":"violence-gender-and-resistance-in-west-asia","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/de\/previous-courses\/summer-2026\/violence-gender-and-resistance-in-west-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence, Gender and Resistance in West Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-7d19a5aa\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Violence, Gender and Resistance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-text gb-text-c8998eda\"><em> in West Asia<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#Olimpiada_Usanova-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olimpiada Usanova<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#Saida_Sirazhudinova-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saida Sirazhudinova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-c1956806\">Gender-based violence constitutes a structural and persistent form of inequality that shapes social relations, legal systems, and political responses across different societies. In West Asian countries, gender-based violence intersects with authoritarian governance, armed conflict, migration, and deeply rooted patriarchal norms, producing specific patterns of vulnerability as well as resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-6a65e352\">This course examines gender-based violence in West Asia through feminist and queer perspectives, with a particular focus on physical, sexualized, economic, and psychological violence against women, children, and queer individuals. Special attention is paid to domestic violence, femicide, so-called \u201chonour\u201d killings, female genital mutilation, violence in conflict settings, and violence affecting displaced and migrant populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-b6d797a8\">The course combines comparative regional analysis (Northern Caucasus, Southern Caucasus, and Iran) with an exploration of legal frameworks, social practices, and forms of resistance. It critically engages with activism, women\u2019s initiatives, and survival strategies such as migration and evacuation, highlighting how individuals and communities contest violence and create alternative spaces of agency.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Violence_Gender_Resistance_Syllabus_SS26.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"Einbettung von Violence_Gender_Resistance_Syllabus_SS26.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1f04b671-c338-4a14-852d-2f12830b4f6a\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Violence_Gender_Resistance_Syllabus_SS26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Violence_Gender_Resistance_Syllabus_SS26<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">17.04.26 &#8211; 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