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The Democratic Confederalism strategy: a study of Abdullah Öcalan prison writings (1999-2005) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Este trabalho visa apresentar como a teoria revolucionária do Confederalismo Democrático construída por Abdullah Öcalan, em seus anos iniciais na prisão da ilha de Imrali, na Turquia, se transformou em um novo paradigma teórico para o Movimento de ...
Cruz, Caio Nunes da
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Introduction - Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics and Theoretical Perspectives

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto
This editorial positions Kurdish politics at a turning point initiated by the PKK's 2025 decision to dissolve its armed wing and by concomitant institutional realignments in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Davide Grasso, Andrea Novellis
doaj   +3 more sources

Democratic Confederalism and the Theory of History: Historical Ontologies of Political Alternative in Bookchin, Öcalan, and Graeber

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto
This paper aims to discuss the "historical ontology of political alternative" emerging from the work of Abdullah Öcalan by comparing it to the ones of two other authors: Murray Bookchin, who has notoriously influenced his thought, and David Graeber ...
Bernardo Paci
doaj   +3 more sources

Rojava Revolution: How does the materialisation of Öcalan's Democratic Confederalism shape the internal cohesion of the AANES, as compared to conventional modern states and established nation-building theory? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Not many could have foreseen the emergence of a democratic revolution in Northern Syria. Thus, the introduction of “Democratic Confederalism” by the Kurdish Freedom movement largely went by unnoticed, as the possibilities of any major revolution in Syria
Aksoy, Enes   +3 more
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Women, Space, Resistance: Kurdish Refugee‐Migrants' Narratives From Lavrio and Skaramagas Camps in Greece

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Refugee camps have long been theorized as spaces of exception, where sovereign power reduces displaced people to what Agamben terms ‘bare life’. While this frame captures the violence of camp governance, it depicts refugee‐migrants as passive and says little about how camp space is inhabited, contested and remade in everyday life, least of all
Orkide Izci
wiley   +1 more source

Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 286-298, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long‐standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, understood as an increase in employers’ discretion.
Vincenzo Maccarrone
wiley   +1 more source

National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 414-425, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘national colonialism’ to capture colonial relations in the nation‐state form. It does so through a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘internal colonialism’, which largely fails to explain the links between nationalism and colonial relations.
Behnam Amini
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic Confederalism: An Alternative for Facing Tensions Between Global Citizenship and Localist Citizenship

open access: yesProblema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho, 2023
This article explores the tensions between different conceptions of “citizenship.” On the one hand, we point out the virtues and limitations of cosmopolitan citizenship in the terms in which Seyla Benhabib understands it in The Right of Others…; on the other hand, we delve into another notion of citizenship, namely, the localist, in a version that ...
Luis Xavier López-Farjeat   +1 more
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Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 74-89, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava. The review aims to synthesize existing academic research in English on the interplay between armed conflict and environmental change in the region, focusing on the Kurdish‐led socio‐political model known as the Autonomous ...
Pinar Dinc   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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