Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement
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Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement

Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities

  1. 399 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement

Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities

About this book

Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities is a pioneering text that examines the ideas about social ecology and communalism behind the evolving political structures in the Kurdish region. The collection evaluates practical green projects, including the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, Jinwar women's eco-village, food sovereignty in a solidarity economy, environmental defenders in Iranian Kurdistan, and Make Rojava Green Again. Contributors also critically reflect on such contested themes as Alevi nature beliefs, anti-dam demonstrations, human-rights law and climate change, the Gezi Park protests, and forest fires. Throughout this volume, the contributors consider the formidable challenges to the Kurdish initiatives, such as state repression, damaged infrastructure, and oil dependency. Nevertheless, contributors assert that the West has much to learn from the Kurdish ecological paradigm, which offers insight into social movement debates about development and decolonization.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. Part I: Theory
  12. Chapter 1: The Value of Social Ecology in the Struggles to Come
  13. Chapter 2: Social Ecology in Öcalan’s Thinking
  14. Chapter 3: Ecological Self-Governmentality in Kurdish Space at a Time of Neoliberal Authoritarianism
  15. Chapter 4: Radical or Reactionary Tomatoes?: Organizing against the Toxic Legacy of Capital’s Environmentalism
  16. Part II: Positive Initiatives for Ecological Change
  17. Chapter 5: Ecology Structures of the Kurdish Freedom Movement
  18. Chapter 6: From an Interview with Menekşe Kizildere, HDP Ecology Commission Co-Spokesperson
  19. Chapter 7: Greening and Feeding the City: The Difficult Path to the Implementation of Political Ecology in Diyarbakır/Amed, 2015–2017
  20. Chapter 8: Regenerating Kurdish Ecologies through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, and Economies of Care
  21. Chapter 9: Free Life Together: Jinwar, the Women’s Eco-Village1
  22. Chapter 10: Women’s Subjectivity and the Ecological and Communal Economy
  23. Part III: Social Movements and Environmental Activism
  24. Chapter 11: Environmental Activism in Rojhelat: Emergence and Objectives
  25. Chapter 12: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and Gezi: Strategic Reluctance and Tactical Ambiguities
  26. Chapter 13: Hasankeyf, the Ilısu Dam, and the Kurdish Movement in Turkey
  27. Chapter 14: The Kurdish Ecology Movement and Human Rights
  28. Chapter 15: The Internationalist Project to Make Rojava Green Again
  29. Part IV: Nature Protection and Kurdish Alevism
  30. Chapter 16: Dersim as a Sacred Land: Contemporary Kurdish Alevi Ethno-Politics and Environmental Struggle
  31. Chapter 17: The Philosophy of Ecology and Rêya Heqî: Religion, Nature, and Femininity
  32. Part V: Conflict and Environmental Destruction
  33. Chapter 18: Forest Fires in Dersim and Şırnak: Conflict and Environmental Destruction
  34. Chapter 19: Breaking the Kill Chain: Exposing to Challenge British State and International Corporate Complicity in Turkey’s Killer Drone Industry
  35. Part VI: Conclusions
  36. Chapter 20: “To Plant the Tree of Tomorrow”: Seeding and Spiraling Ecologically Aware Democratic Autonomy beyond the Kurdish Freedom Movement
  37. Chapter 21: Concluding Reflections on the Kurdish Ecology Initiatives
  38. Introduction
  39. Index
  40. About the Editor
  41. About the Contributors