Serkeftin
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Serkeftin

A Narrative of the Rojava Revolution

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eBook - ePub

Serkeftin

A Narrative of the Rojava Revolution

About this book

In the Spring of 2017, activist, journalist and hip-hop artist Marcel Cartier was given exclusive access to the structures set up in the predominately Kurdish areas in northern Syria. Over the course of more than a month, Cartier travelled across the terrain known as Rojava, experiencing the radical grassroots revolution that is sweeping the region. He spoke with commanders of the People's Protection Units (YPG), visited women's organisations, saw the cooperatives and communes in action that have transformed the concept of democracy, and found his understanding of revolution challenged and reinvigorated. Unique in its access, emotion and humanity, Serkeftin: A Narrative of the Rojava Revolution, is a beautiful account of a contradictory and complex process that is fundamentally changing society in the midst of the 21st century's most brutal civil war. Meaning 'victory', the Kurdish word 'serkeftin' captures the spirit of optimism in the catastrophe that has engulfed this beautiful country since 2011 and has simultaneously brought the possibility of freedom ever closer.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Introduction: In Mehmet’s Footsteps
  7. Chapter 1: Feeling the Spirit of Revolution
  8. Chapter 2: The Epic Resistance of Kobane
  9. Chapter 3: YPG and YPJ: Revolutionists or Pawns of the Empire?
  10. Chapter 4: ‘The Kurds’: Internationalists or Narrow Nationalists?
  11. Chapter 5: The Centrality of Women’s Liberation in Northern Syria (Theory)
  12. Chapter 6: The Centrality of Women’s Liberation in Northern Syria (Practice)
  13. Chapter 7: Rojavan Pedagogy: Where Students Are Also Teachers
  14. Chapter 8: The Theory, Practice and Contradictions of Internationalism in Rojava
  15. Chapter 9: Ocalan’s Ideology: Establishing a Multi-Ethnic, Democratic Society
  16. Chapter 10: Communes and Cooperatives: The Basis of Rojava’s Society
  17. Chapter 11: Shehid Namirin: To Live Like the Fallen Will Be Humanity’s Revenge
  18. Chapter 12: Heval Demhat’s Blood Now Nourishes the Soil
  19. Chapter 13: Post-ISIS, Will the US Soon Abandon Its Kurdish Allies?
  20. Chapter 14: Final Word: A Pledge to Mehmet and to Humanity