Witched by Execution: A History of Women Punished to Death

• In Event: The ones they couldn’t burn: a call for global critical witchcraft studies

Abstract

As witch hunts are not a part of the known history of Turkey, the paper will trace cases in which women were killed outrageously and/or women’s dead bodies were displayed publicly. The cases will include capital punishments by the state, collective burning/massacres committed by ordinary people and femicides by the intimate partner. The paper will study those executions in tandem with both the formation and restoration of masculinist domination, and the modes of capital accumulation. Finally, it will connect these punishments to the demands and protests of the feminist movement.

Presenter

• Ayça Kurtoğlu, Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University