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Beyond Orientalism: Exploring the Distinctive Feminism of Democratic Confederalism in Rojava [PDF]
Geopolitics, 2018 Women have been central to the revolution in Rojava, leading to widespread interest in the Kurdish women’s movement across Western contexts. Yet Western mass media representations of women combatants tend to be objectifying and superficial, glossing over the unique variety of feminism, known as “jineology,” that is core to the political system of ...
Arianne Shahvisi (4462519)
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Will the Rojava Revolution Survive? Theory, Practice, and the Future of Democratic Confederalism [PDF]
Pacha. Revista de Estudios Contemporáneos del Sur Global, 2021 After the outbreak of the Syrian war, the armed resistance of the Kurds against the radical Islamists drew considerable attention from across the world. Although the Kurdish movement has a history of forty years of armed fight in the region, especially against Turkey, they gained global fame during the war in Syria.
Sargi, Islam
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Democratic Confederalism and Societal Multiplicity: A Sympathetic Critique of Abdullah Öcalan’s State Theory [PDF]
Geopolitics, 2019 ABSTRACTThe 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 democracy wi...
Kamran Matin (4461058)
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War, Peace and Ideologies : Approaching peace in war through Democratic Confederalism and the war in Rojava [PDF]
, 2019 Traditionally, war and peace have been approached as incompatible entities; where war and violence are present, peace has been assumed to be absent. Recent studies of peace in conflict have started to undermine this assumption, since expressions of peace and attempts at building peace have been found among individuals and communities entangled in ...
Nordhag, Anders
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DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERALISM - Abdullah Öcalan [PDF]
, 2016 ÖCALAN, Abdullah. Kürdistan: Devrim Manifestosu. Demokratik Uygarlık Manifestosu. Diyarbakır:Ararat Yayıncılık, 2012.Disponível em: http://www.freeocalan.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Ocalan-Democratic-Confederalism. pdf.
Karadağ, Bülend +1 more
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The European Parliament's Political Leadership: The Case Study of EU Foreign Policy towards Turkey
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 61, Issue 5, Page 1377-1393, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article presents an empirical analysis of how the European Parliament's eighth legislature mobilised to shape European Union (EU) foreign policy towards Turkey during the refugee crisis. On a conceptual and methodological level, we propose an analytical framework based on the mechanism of political leadership to trace the EP's role in two
Elena Baracani, Lorenzo Santini
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Plurinational democracies in Europe: the quest for a profane constitutionalism
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 50, Issue S1, Page S140-S156, September 2023., 2023 Abstract How should we understand the claims on the right to decide on status made within plurinational member states of the European Union by actors and institutions seeking to protect the self‐government of sub‐state nations or peoples, or at least their right to consent to their ascribed status?
JOXERRAMON BENGOETXEA
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Uncovering Power Dynamics: Feeling Rules in European Policy‐making
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 526-544, March 2023., 2023 Abstract While feeling rules have been found to be highly relevant in social research and international relations, little is known about their role in European policy‐making. This article explores how emotions have been understood by Commission and Council officials and by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) across policy areas over a long time ...
Rosa Sanchez Salgado
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Democratic confederalism in Rojva: Anti-capitalism and democratic modernity [PDF]
, 2019 A raíz de las movilizaciones en contra del régimen de Bashar al-Assad en Siria en 2011, los pueblos kurdos de la región de Rojava comenzaron la construcción del Confederalismo Democrático.
Hernández González, Rodrigo Rubén
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When Öcalan met Bookchin: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Political Theory of Democratic Confederalism [PDF]
, 2018 The transformation of the Kurdish Freedom Movement towards Democratic Confederalism has promised a new horizon for emancipatory political organisation. This article examines the relationship between Bookchin’s political theory of communalism and Öcalan’s
Brincat, Shannon, Gerber, Damian
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