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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 +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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Palestinian and Kurdish nationalism: Understanding the ‘politics of the possible’
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 219-234, December 2022., 2022 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
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Autonomy in agrarian studies, politics, and movements: An inter‐paradigm debate
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 455-472, July 2022., 2022 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
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Moving towards a world without frontiers
Groundings, 2019 Rojava is a region in Northern Syria, which, after its abandonment by the Syrian government in 2011 following the outbreak of the Civil War, has undergone a profound social and political transformation carried out by its Kurdish population, who are a ...
Miguel Rodriguez Ruiz
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THE DEMOCRATIC UNION PARTY (PYD) AND PEOPLE'S PROTECTION UNITS (YPG) IN TURKISH OFFICIAL DISCOURSE
World Affairs, Volume 185, Issue 1, Page 59-90, Spring 2022., 2022 This article explores the construction of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Turkish official discourse. In the article, I employ critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze written texts produced during the years 2014–2019 that reflect the position of the Turkish authorities.
Azad Deewanee
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The subversive potential of witchcraft: A reflection on Federici's Self‐reproducing movements
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 1643-1660, July 2021., 2021 Abstract This is a theoretical contribution that draws on the work of Silvia Federici, and particularly her book, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the body and primitive accumulation to discuss crises, struggles over social reproduction, and feminist activist organizing.
Maria Daskalaki
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Le Rojava : une alternative communaliste à l’État-nation
Terrains/Théories, 2021 The article presents the formation of a communalist alternative to the nation-state in « Rojava » in northern Syria. This experience has emerged from the political paradigm shift of the historic Kurdish People's Liberation Party, PKK, initiated by its ...
Loez
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Numerical Evaluation of the Opening Effects on the Reinforced Concrete Slab Structural Performance
Shock and Vibration, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 A finite element method was used in this study to investigate the effects of openings on the resistive behavior of concrete slabs. The presented modeling procedure is used to conduct numerical analyses on the response of reinforced concrete slab subjected to in‐plane monotonic loads in X (perpendicular to the beam) and Z (parallel to the beam ...
Meysam Aminitabar +3 more
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The Kurdish Problem in the Modern Politics of Iraq, Syria and Turkey: a Comprehensive Analysis
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета. Серия: политические, социологические и экономические науки, 2023 Currently, the Middle East is undergoing significant changes, often due to a mixture of global and regional factors. The study is devoted to the current policies in the Middle East, in the ethnogeographic area of Kurdistan.
Ilia N. Vedeneev
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