Democratic confederalism and societal multiplicity: A sympathetic critique of Abdullah Öcalan's state theory

K Matin - Geopolitics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The Kurdish-led project of democratic confederalism in Rojava (north and north-east Syria)
has emerged as an unprecedented experience in eco-feminist and anti-capitalist direct …

Lessons from Rojava for the paradigm of social ecology

C Hammy, TJ Miley - Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This essay addresses two related questions raised by the editors of the research topic for
“Beyond the Frontiers of Political Science: Is Good Governance Possible in Cataclysmic …

Of (not) being neighbors: cities, citizens and climate change in an age of migrations

E Turhan, M Armiero - Mobilities, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Borders are back with a vengeance. From the Americas to the Mediterranean, borders cut
through the increasingly integrated world in a way that exposes the inside-outside logic of …

Towards a more globally inclusive academic discussion on local government: is more attention to Asian countries the answer?

Q Bian, L Xin, Y Li - Local Government Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Asian countries' growing importance in global affairs contrasts with the scant scholarly focus
on their political, administrative, and governance practices. Our review of Local Government …

Autonomy as a third mode of ordering: Agriculture and the Kurdish movement in Rojava and North and East Syria

J Jongerden - Journal of Agrarian Change, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
While the fight of the Kurdish movement against Islamic State (IS) received much coverage,
almost no attention was or has been given to the reconstruction efforts of Rojava after its …

Diaspora as socio‐material assemblage: Political agency in the Kurdish freedom movement's representations of homeland

F Ventura - Global Networks, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The proliferation of diasporas has expanded the intricate web of political relations on a
global scale. Transnationality has increasingly replaced methodological nationalism, and …

Exploring peace in the midst of War: Rojava as a zone of peace?

A Nordhag - Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
War and peace are often depicted as mutually exclusive phenomena; where there is violent
conflict, peace is absent. This assumption is problematic because it obscures cases where …

Beyond anarchy and capital? The geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria

C Hoffmann, K Matin - Geopolitics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The drylands of the Middle East have been long seen not only as unfavourable to life, but
also and relatedly, socio-politically fragile. Fraught with myths of eternal 'ethnic','sectarian', or …

Radicalising homeland: agency, temporality and spatiality in Kurdish Freedom Movement's representations of Kurdistan

F Ventura - 2022 - researchrepository.ucd.ie
This research contributes to the understanding of the concept of homeland through a focus
on agency, temporality, and spatiality. These have been underexplored in existing …

[PDF][PDF] Radical Democracy and Self-Governance in Kurdistan

H Baris - E-International Relations, 2020 - aura.abdn.ac.uk
Although Kurdish politics in Turkey is dominated by a national liberation movement, the
movement makes no explicit appeal to nationalism and adopts a radically critical stand …