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Grassroots democracy and local government in Northern Syria: the case of democratic confederalism [PDF]

open access: yesLocal Government Studies, 2018
This paper provides a case study regarding an innovative model of grass-roots democracy, called democratic confederalism, which is currently being implemented in Northern Syria.
Rocco Frondizi   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Jineology: Kurdish “feminism” in the doctrine of democratic confederalism and the political system of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (Rojava) [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Iuridica, 2022
There can be no doubt that among many problems of the Middle East inadequate status of women is of paramount importance. It might come as a surprise, then, that the most radical doctrine of feminine emancipation was formulated by the Kurdish socialist freedom movement from Turkey and is being implemented in war-torn Syria in the de facto autonomy ...
Błaszczyk, Cezary
openaire   +3 more sources

The Geopolitics of Democratic Confederalism in Syria: Geopolitics as the Interplay of Multiple Strategies of Spatialisation [PDF]

open access: yesGeopolitics, 2019
The emerging socio-political entity of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS), lauded and criticised for its proclaimed progressive model, gave rise to by now a sizable literature on it...
Cemgil, Can
openaire   +2 more sources

Democratic Confederalism in North and East Syria (Rojava): The Contradictions of Non-State Sovereignty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Since the revolution emerged in North and East Syria (NES) in 2012, there has been much scholarly attention on democratic confederalism and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES, Rojava). Much of this literature has focused on its exceptional nature. Following Michel-Rolph Trouillot I ask, what is being obscured or masked when we
Clevenger, Michael
openaire   +3 more sources

Prospects for Kurdish Ecology Initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic Confederalism and Social Ecology [PDF]

open access: yesCapitalism Nature Socialism, 2017
This paper surveys the nascent experiments in political ecology underway in predominantly Kurdish areas of south-eastern Turkey, known as Bakur, and Rojava (northern Syria). The Kurdish freedom movement is attempting to consolidate a social revolution with ecology at its heart in a most unpromising context, given its ongoing struggle against Islamic ...
Stephen E. Hunt, Hunt, Stephen E.
openaire   +3 more sources

Birth and crisis of the Nation State: the Democratic Confederalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The structural weakness of the Nation State with regard to the phenomena of globalization and regionalism has encouraged the studies on the possible reforms. Discussing about the State assumes the identification of its current meaning on a global scale, hence the need to construct a new epistemology of the state dimension entirely included in the ...
Alessandro Laruffa
openaire   +2 more sources

Alternative Political Projects of Territoriality and Governance during the Syrian War: The Caliphate Vs Democratic Confederalism [PDF]

open access: yesGeopolitics, 2021
Following the Arab Spring and the Syrian war, two non-state actors, the Islamic State (IS; also known as ISIS or ISIL) and the Democratic Union Party (PYD), deployed their political projects of the caliphate and democratic confederalism, respectively ...
Cemil Boyraz
exaly   +2 more sources

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