Turkey

This paper analyses how organising-oriented women’s cooperatives in Türkiye, founded largely by women from lower socio-economic backgrounds, have evolved into sites of grassroots advocacy where marginalised women articulate collective interests. The analysis draws on semi-structured interviews with 15 cooperatives, alongside documents from women’s cooperative meetings. Building on Bayat’s (2000, 2013) framework of quiet encroachment, and […]

This is the introduction to Gender & Development’s special issue on ‘Revisiting Feminist Advocacy’.