Results 21 to 30 of about 3,937 (182)
Palestinian and Kurdish nationalism: Understanding the ‘politics of the possible’
ABSTRACT This article compares the efforts of the Palestinians and the Kurds – the two largest stateless nations in the Middle East – to obtain recognition. While Kurdish movements are spread across four countries in the region – Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, with specificities dependent on the historical context and relations with the particular host
Jørgen Jensehaugen, Pinar Tank
wiley +1 more source
Abstract While the fight of the Kurdish movement against Islamic State (IS) received much coverage, almost no attention was or has been given to the reconstruction efforts of Rojava after its liberation from the Ba′ath regime and the defeat of the caliphate, let alone the political principles underlying the reconstruction of the agrarian economy.
Joost Jongerden
wiley +1 more source
Autonomy in agrarian studies, politics, and movements: An inter‐paradigm debate
Abstract Autonomy has been a term often used in agrarian studies to express the ability of individuals or collective subjects to escape the rule of capital or the control of the state. Academic interventions on autonomy in different fields and disciplines discuss how global capitalism operates and what kind of subjects, spaces, and practices can resist
Leandro Vergara‐Camus, Kees Jansen
wiley +1 more source
This research is aimed at building a new health service model for childhood obesity based on data processing by cloud computing, to effectively utilize existing resources to provide fair, accessible, systematic, and continuous health services for children with obesity.
Li-fang Zhang, Liang Zhou, Chia-Huei Wu
wiley +1 more source
Le communalisme ou l’avenir de la Commune de 1871
The reference to the Commune of 1871 comes back as a reference to contemporary movements, but following a usage that contrasts with those made by the left in the twentieth century.
Pierre Sauvêtre +2 more
doaj +1 more source
New Municipalism and the State: Remunicipalising Energy in Barcelona, from Prosaics to Process
Abstract Bertie Russell’s 2019 Antipode paper documents the emergence of a “new municipalist” movement, which approaches the city as a strategic entry point for a radically democratic politics. Given this movement’s aspirations towards the transformation of the municipal state, how might state theory inform research and practice on new municipalism ...
James Angel
wiley +1 more source
Commune de Paris et Commune des ronds-points
What role did the Paris Commune play in the atypical mobilisation of the "yellow vests" in France which started in November 2018? If we stick to its occurrences in the mobilisation, it remained limited compared to that of the French Revolution.
Laurent Jeanpierre
doaj +1 more source
Lessons From Rojava for the Paradigm of Social Ecology
This essay addresses two related questions raised by the editors of the research topic for “Beyond the Frontiers of Political Science: Is Good Governance Possible in Cataclysmic Times?” In particular, it explores: 1) how we can identify new tools and ...
Cihad Hammy, Thomas Jeffrey Miley
doaj +1 more source
Postanarchisms: a critical assessment [PDF]
Post-modernism has had a significant influence on anarchism, notably in the interrelation between the theoretical positions of libertarianism and post-structuralism (a set of theories and philosophies strongly identified with, but not identical to, post ...
Franks, B.
core +1 more source
Se référer au passé pour faire du communalisme une alternative émancipatrice
We are interested here in libertarian writings that make the past a reserve of experiences likely to inspire a more just society, by focusing our attention on the valuations of the commune, understood as a grouping on a territorial basis of individuals ...
Paula Cossart
doaj +1 more source

