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Neoliberalism and Rojava: The Political

2021
After analyses of the judicial and aesthetic dimensions of the play, the fourth chapter delves more deeply into its content and meanings, in a reading that finds the opposition between neoliberalism and the feminist experiment in Rojava to be the fundamental theme of the play. Key to the argument in this chapter is that the topics explicitly flagged up
Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad, Grønstad Asbjørn Skarsvåg   +1 more
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Rojava: a state subverted or reinvented?

Postcolonial Studies, 2020
This article discusses how Rojava and its ‘Autonomous Administration’ simultaneously subvert and reinstate the state(s) they are fighting. Based on Abdullah Ocalan’s (b.
Enrique Galvan-Alvarez
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Understanding Rojava

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2022
Abstract This study critically analyzes representations of Kurdish women fighters in US mainstream media from January 2014 to December 2018. The article argues that the narrative articulated through the presentation of Kurdish women in the US media as “badass” soldiers fighting against the violence and extremism of the Islamic State ...
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Self-Determination and Use of Force in Rojava

Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 2021
After living under the colonialism of the Ottoman Empire, France, and Syria, the Kurds of Syria are developing landmark policy atypical of the Middle East. Recent developments triggered by the 2011 Syrian insurgency, the rise of the ISIS, the onslaught on Kurdish cities, and the resistance of People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection ...
Loqman Radpey
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CRITICAL HISTORY OF KURDISH LITERATURE IN ROJAVA

Mezopotamya Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi, 2022
Rexne ya edebî pişkeke ji edebnasîyê ye. Çendîn qonax û çax derbazkirî ne. Li her qonax û çaxkê de rexnegirî bi awayekê serederî digel têksta edebî kirî ye. Rolekê baş lîstî ye ji bo pêşxstina têkstên edebî. Çendîn teorî derketîne holê.
Rabeea Ismael Khalid ZEBARI, Mehmet Veysi BABAYİĞİT   +1 more
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The ambiguities of democratic autonomy: the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Rojava [PDF]

Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea, 2016
This paper traces the ideology of democratic autonomy, as developed by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan from the libertarian and anarchist writings of Murray Bookchin, as an alternative to the authoritarian and centralist nation state, not only in the Kurdish-inhabited provinces, but in Turkey at large.
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Communal Democracy: The Social Contract and Confederalism in Rojava

Comparative Islamic Studies, 2016
The article engages with the question of self-governance and its implications for the concept of citizenship in Rojava. A short overview of the historical development of the political idea of democratic autonomy applied in Rojava is given, a model that claims to be on the way to creating a stateless model of radical democracy whose realisation involves
Knapp, M., Jongerden, J.P.
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Rojava: Politics of Revolutionary Hope

Journal für Entwicklungspolitik
This article explores the Rojava revolution as a contemporary site of revolutionary hope. Against a backdrop of war, marginalization, and global despair, the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES) offers a political experiment grounded in direct democracy, ecology, and women’s liberation.
Ghoreishi, Kaveh, Minelli, Sara
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L’épopée de la Rojava

Recherches Internationales, 2015
Le combat des Kurdes syriens depuis le début de la révolution en 2011 est en tout point exemplaire et totalement inédit dans l’ensemble du Proche et Moyen-Orient. Les milices kurdes syriennes et la population civile se battent pour un programme totalement égalitariste : égalité homme-femme, croyants de toutes religions et non-croyants, de toutes ...
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A Genealogy of Rojava

Abstract The origins of Rojava can be traced to the Republic of Mount Ararat, one of the most significant rebellions in the aftermath of the founding of the Turkish Republic. Based on an official treaty of cooperation between the Kurdish Xoybûn League and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), Mount Ararat declared ...
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