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...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...

...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...

... into a mutual trauma. The spiral of ongoing violence becomes a shared trauma. Until that trauma is eliminated, the politician who just condemns the violence and does not do anything to change it is a hypocrite. Let's start with what democratic autonomy means to us. It envisions a radical reform to ensure...

... . 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...

... that Boğaziçi protests could be seen as part of the making of a counter or dissident body politic, which seeks to rethink and revitalize, at this conjuncture of neoliberal authoritarianism, the university as a critical social institution and as an arena of democratic struggle interconnected to other social...

... of scarcity is one of the most valu- able resources of humanity. The opposition to austerity has revitalized the potential for democratic creativity (see, e.g., Pleyers 2010: 226).4 Movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Indignados have emerged and developed on the basis of the autonomy...

... the borders of the Nation, reinscribing a democratic political enclosure whereby human life is subordinated to and subjected by the nationalist metaphysics of state power. The Autonomy of Migration and the Mobile Constituent Power of Human Life If populism has widely come to be rendered synonymous...

... . Kriesi Hanspeter . 1996 . “ The Organizational Structure of New Social Movements in a Political Context .” In McAdam, McCarthy, and Zald , 152 – 84 . Kurdistan Tatort . 2013 . “ Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan: The Council Movement, Gender Liberation, and Ecology in Practice...

..., poverty, and ignorance. Rural areas, while being very well adapted for development of a communal eco-economy, quickly depopulate. Therefore, settle- ments must be approached from a holistic perspective and planned as habitable spaces. Democratic Autonomy 1...

...: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan . Translated by Abdullah Asya and Biehl Janet . London : Pluto . Kohan Mehr-Afarin . 2022 . “ Politics of the Body in the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Movement in Iran .” Psychotherapy and Politics International 20 , no. 4...

... questions about democracy, not legal precedent. In relation to abortion and reproductive justice, I want to focus on a few key social-historical issues that have had a significant impact on the regulation of abortion and on bodily autonomy more generally, often indirectly through transforming democratic...

... internationally. In this respect, the increasing migration of university graduates and academics from Turkey during the past decade is important, as is the resonance of demands for university autonomy and democratically run public institutions across publics from Europe, North America, and the global South under...

... model of theory and the theorist. With Kant, he establishes the role of theory as the exit from minority, a social project aimed at both autonomy and democracy. Against Kant, though, he recog- nizes critique as an insufficient means to accomplish this project. By a long, circuitous route through...

... suggest that something from that time still lives on, despite the ongoing vertiginous changes. This should allow us to let go of that specific date and instead grasp this duration. The savage legacy of 2001 is the practical creation of a new notion of autonomy. No longer is it a “relative...

... of the democratic idea, or the idea of emancipation, but also what makes it ille- gitimate to choose without dissolving the political link between the individual and the community. It denotes both a universality of principles posed (and declared) within the horizon of humanity, and an autonomy of decision...

... autonomy are absolute; each must yield to moral guidelines defined by the society as a whole, which one would hope would be arrived at democratically. In the end, the issue does reduce to a political struggle to shape that democratic consensus. But if, as should be the case, racism and sexism are placed...

.... Mario Tronti's theory of the autonomy of the political, which took Carl Schmitt as a fundamental point of reference, is briefly discussed and presented as a possible polemical target of Foucault. His critique of the shift to the political is presented as a symptom of his enduring fidelity to the legacy...

... interference Hence, ‘‘highly differentiated’’ relations between religion and the state that are designed to secure a high measure 7 of autonomy for both spheres, insofar as they reiterate the early Christian distinction, can be seen correctly as one institutional manifestation...

..., solidly Democratic South and the development of a more competitive party structure. After northern blacks were attracted to the Democratic party for its economic policies and southern whites revolted over the civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform, a shift in the southern alignment began...

..., for example, repeats publicly that there are two ways to be French: the departmentalist way and the auton­ omist way. Even the Communists in their program support the autonomy that gives the people of Martinique and Guadeloupe the democratic governing of their own country in a union with France. The Unified...