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Population, 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
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British 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
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National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan
Nations 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
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, 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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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]
, 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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Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review
Studies 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
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The Democratic Confederalism strategy: a study of Abdullah Öcalan prison writings (1999-2005)
, 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 ...
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Hydro‐Insurgency: Weaponization of Water Resources and Infrastructure in Northeast Syria
World Water Policy, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 924-938, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the strategic weaponization of water resources by Turkey‐backed armed groups in Northeast Syria (NES) within the broader context of the Syrian civil war. As the conflict evolved, water infrastructure—dams, rivers, and irrigation systems—became central to warfare, governance, and foreign agendas. The article introduces the
Farhad Hassan Abdullah Mamshai
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Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology [PDF]
, 2017 This paper surveys the nascent experiments in political ecology underway in predominantly Kurdish areas of south-eastern Turkey, known as Bakûr, and Rojava (northern Syria).
Stephen E. Hunt, Hunt, Stephen E.
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A constitution beyond the state: an examination of the Social Contract of Rojava
Global Social Challenges JournalWhile constitutions and nation states are typically understood as mutually constitutive within the post-Westphalian order, contemporary social and political movements of stateless and Indigenous peoples across the world have articulated radical social ...
Leila Faghfouri Azar +2 more
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