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Communal Democracy: The Social Contract and Confederalism in Rojava [PDF]

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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The Biden Administration and Rojava: Old Wine, New Bottle? [PDF]

Middle East Policy, 2022
AbstractOne of the domains of US foreign policy stuck on autopilot relates to Syria and, most importantly, Rojava (or AANES by its official name). The Biden administration inherited a quandary from its predecessor with no easy solution. On the one hand, the hostility of other actors in the region—especially Russia, Turkey, Iran, and Syria—render a ...
Michnik, Wojciech, Plakoudas, Spyridon
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Westernization in Rojava; Infatuation with the West [PDF]

, 2022
The Kurdish-led Rojava Project in northeastern Syria has gained international attention for its pioneering work on equality, community coexistence, and direct democracy through the implementation of Democratic Confederalism, which is a non-state political system. Although Rojava has only existed for approximately ten years at the time of writing, there
Chamoun, Chaton Smedra
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Lessons From Rojava for the Paradigm of Social Ecology [PDF]

Frontiers in Political Science, 2022
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
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L’épopée de la Rojava [PDF]

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 ...
Chiclet, Christophe
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Ethnic Kurdish Revolutionary Movement for the Formation of Democratic Confederalism in the Region of Rojava [PDF]

Papua Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations
The ethnic Kurds play a critical role in the formation of the Democratic Confederalism government in the autonomous region of Rojava. For decades, they have faced oppression and disenfranchisement in Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq.
Rahmat Sikky
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Kurdish Female Fighters the Western Depiction of YPJ Combatants in Rojava [PDF]

Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2019
As this paper is drafted, the YPJ continues to clash against Daesh’s patriarchal impositions. This paper considers three significant questions for its purpose; first, who are Kurdish female fighters and why did they choose to take up arms in an orga ...
Valentina Dean
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O Municipalismo Libertário e a Revolução em Rojava [PDF]

, 2017
A pesquisa buscou apresentar a Revolução de Rojava, sua organização e sua estrutura ideológico-política, influenciada pela teoria do Municipalismo Libertário. Para atingir esse objetivo, o artigo procurou realizar um resgate histórico do povo curdo, sua luta por autonomia e o protagonismo do Parti Karkerani Kurdistan (PKK) (Partido dos Trabalhadores ...
Isaías Albertin de Moraes, Fernando Vieira   +1 more
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Crisis of capitalism and cycles of right‐wing populism in contemporary Turkey: The making and unmaking of Erdoğanist hegemony

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 22-46, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper analyses the right‐wing populist rule of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) in Turkey, focusing on the crisis of capitalism, emerging discontent in the rural populations, and opportunities for and obstacles to a successful left‐wing populist mobilisation. We put forward three arguments.
Şahan Savaş Karataşlı, Şefika Kumral   +1 more
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Freedom‐amelioration, transformative change, and emancipatory orders

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1378-1392, December 2022., 2022
Abstract “Freedom” is a fundamental political concept: contestations or endorsements of freedom‐conceptions concern the fundamental normative orientation of sociopolitical orders. Focusing on “freedom,” this article argues that the project of bringing about emancipatory sociopolitical orders is both aided by efforts at engineering fundamental political
Lukas Schmid
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