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Exploring Peace in the Midst of War: Rojava as a Zone of Peace? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Peacebuilding and Development, 2021
War and peace are often depicted as mutually exclusive phenomena; where there is violent conflict, peace is absent. This assumption is problematic because it obscures cases where groups, networks, or communities create peaceful situations for themselves ...
Nordhag, Anders,
exaly   +2 more sources

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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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   +1 more
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The ambiguities of democratic autonomy: the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Rojava [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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.
exaly   +4 more sources

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 ...
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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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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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Retour du Rojava

EcoRev'
Une délégation de la gauche française, sous la bannière du Nouveau Front Populaire, s’est rendue à Kobané en Syrie pour commémorer le 10 e anniversaire de la libération de cette ville kurde, le 26 janvier 2015, des mains de l’État Islamique. Jérôme Gleizes qui en faisait partie, nous livre ici son témoignage avec un article, écrit fin février 2025, qui
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Revolution and war in Western Kurdistan’s Rojava

Social Movement Studies, 2020
The two books under review describe the contemporary Syrian civil war and the related social revolution in the region of Western Kurdistan known as Rojava.
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Imaginare Aude! Lessons of the Rojava Revolution

Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2016
In recent years, Rojava, or West Kurdistan, has been the site of an extraordinary experiment in participatory democracy, communal self-determination, ecological politics, and radical feminist socia...
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