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The Rojava Experience: Possibilities and Challenges of Building a Democratic Life
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 184–196.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Bülent Küçük; Ceren Özselçuk This essay engages with the political possibilities and limits of the ethico-political horizon of the resistance in Rojava, which has been advanced and put into action under the general name of democratic autonomy . Following the shift of perspective that took place...
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Self-Defense as a Revolutionary Practice in Rojava, or How to Unmake the State
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 197–210.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Nazan Üstündağ This intervention concerns the ways in which law and violence are being reorganized in Rojava. Based on observations and interviews I conducted in the Jazira canton of Rojava, I argue that, through democratic autonomy, the Rojava revolution poses a challenge to the politics...
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Fixers, Fieldwork, and Precarity: The Postcoloniality of Western Fieldwork on ISIS in Kurdistan
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 755–777.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of interest. The frequencies presented in table 1 show that there are some similarities and differences between professionals from NES and KRI. Many KRI-based journalists referred to NES and the project Rojava in general as a positive example, especially regarding emancipation, freedom of speech...
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Geopolitics of Inter-subaltern Colonialism and Gender: Challenging Methodological Dualism through the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Journey from Kurdistan to Iran
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 779–802.
Published: 01 October 2024
... . London : Routledge . Khalili Mostafa . 2023 . “ From ‘Green Movement’ to ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’: Continuity and Change in the Evolution of the Protest Movement in Iran .” Protest 3 , no. 1 : 133 – 40 . Knapp Michael , and Flach Anja . 2016 . Revolution in Rojava...
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Kurdish Vernacular Learning as Indigenous Knowledge: Decolonizing Ottoman Cultural and Intellectual History
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 803–823.
Published: 01 October 2024
... nation or society—a view typical of precisely the nationalist ideologies Öcalan claims to be rejecting (80–82). Thus, Öcalan's more recent theories, although they have undoubtedly had real emancipatory effects in Rojava and Bakur or southeastern Turkey since 2012, and possibly elsewhere, appear...
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The Return of the Oppressed: Notes on Kurdish Anti-colonialism
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 848–861.
Published: 01 October 2024
... who have been resisting for more than two hundred years—has not been able to make a theoretical contribution to global anti-colonialism literature. Yet the recent Rojava revolution and the slogan “ Jin, jîyan, azadî ” (Woman, life, freedom) have started to break this unproductive cycle to some extent...
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Introduction: The New Feminist Internationale
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (3): 620–628.
Published: 01 July 2020
... experiences that have historically disobeyed nation-states and that today confront the recoloni- zation of the continent, and domestic spaces that resist their enclosure and silent exploitation. It nds inspiration in the autonomous struggles of Rojava and in the communitarian struggles of Guatemala...
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Turkey’s Decline into (Civil) War Economy: From Neoliberal Populism to Corporate Nationalism
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (1): 41–59.
Published: 01 January 2019
... . Akçay Ümit . 2018 . “ Neoliberal Populism in Turkey and Its Crisis .” Working Paper No. 100/2018 . Berlin : Institute for International Political Economy . Aslan Azize . 2016 . “ Economic Self-Governance in Democratic Autonomy: The Example of Bakur .” Cooperative Economy in Rojava...
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Democratic Economy Conference: An Introductory Note
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 211–222.
Published: 01 January 2016
..., the need for an economic renewal
in the region is more urgent than ever.
On the one hand, the settlement process provided a respite from the
tense state of war (at least until the war in Rojava broke out) and an opportu-
nity for the movement to put into practice its socioeconomic program...
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Is Hope More Precious than Victory?: The Failed Peace Process and Urban Warfare in the Kurdish Region of Turkey
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 January 2019
... .” Porsgrunn, NO : New Compass Press . Küçük Bülent Özselçuk Ceren . 2016 . “ The Rojava Experience: Possibilities and Challenges of Building a Democratic Life .” South Atlantic Quarterly 115 , no. 1 : 184 – 96 . Lawson Fred H. 2016 . “ Explaining the Spread of Ethnosectarian...
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Twenty Years of Feminist Engagement: Reflections on Practice
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 711–730.
Published: 01 October 2024
... revolutions, the fall of dictatorships, and periods of political turmoil, opportunities arise for radical and swift changes in structures, institutions, and values, as we observed in Rojava. But seizing such opportunities requires specific actors and effective leadership, which may be missing at such critical...
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Decolonizing Minds and Education: Critical Pedagogy and Epistemic Disobedience in Kurdistan
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 689–710.
Published: 01 October 2024
... system in Chiapas, Mexico, to the universities of Rojava under Kurdish administration in northern and eastern Syria and the University of Birzeit in Palestine, there is a growing effort to develop a decolonial model that prioritizes Indigenous and diverse perspectives, epistemologies, histories...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 655–664.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... In Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), the Baath regime's Arab Belt project in the 1970s displaced 140,000 Kurds and relocated Arabs aiming to Arabize Kurdish territories in the North and East. Since the beginning of the Syrian War, the Kurds have borne the heaviest burden of the political conflict, facing targeting...
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“I Am Kurdish, My Homeland Is Kurdistan”: Excerpts from Selahattin Demirtaş’s Testimony before the Turkish Court
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 825–839.
Published: 01 October 2024
...) bid for a governing majority in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. However, this triumph was soon eclipsed by heightened hostility toward the Kurdish political movement, particularly in northern Syria (Rojava). In response, the AKP government abruptly terminated peace negotiations, opting instead...
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Constructing a Communal Form of Life: Destituent Praxis in the Peripheries of Mexico City
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (1): 103–119.
Published: 01 January 2023
... to be the means by which individuality grows and is affirmed. Perhaps, critics will say, communal autonomy is possible in far-flung territories such as Chiapas and Rojava, where people can rely on preexisting relations with one another and the land, but surely not in large cities. The difficulty...
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Anthropocene: Victims, Narrators, and Revolutionaries
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 345–362.
Published: 01 April 2017
.... Since
2014, activists from Insurgencia have traveled to the Syrian city of Kobane,
establishing an organic cooperation with Kurdish militants. The revolution
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in Rojava (Northern Syria) has become a source of inspiration for the Nea
politan...
