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English Language Education in North and East Syria “Rojava” Today: Challenges and Opportunities

TESOL Today
The focus of this study is to investigate the challenges that English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Rojava face in learning English language and the opportunities to overcome the challenges.
Hividar Muhammed Muhammed, Karwan Mustafa Saeed, Civin Ebdulrehman Segvan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Status of Women in Kurdish Society and the Extent of Their Interactions in Public Realm

SAGE Open, 2022
Apart from the traditional Kurdish gender regime, which originates from the Kurdish tribal structure and which to some extent restricts the visibility of women in society, the status of Kurdish women is considered to be relatively high in comparison with
Hooshmand Alizadeh, Josef Kohlbacher, Sara Qadir Mohammed, Salah Vaisi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

In Desperate Need: Public Sanitation in Contemporary London

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 193-214, January 2025.
Abstract There has been a collapse in the number of public toilets in UK cities. Austerity cuts, a lack of legal requirements, and a failure to prioritise sanitation has led to significant health and equality impacts. Research on public toilets in the Global North focuses on their historical production, contemporary design, or on the experience of ...
Victoria Habermehl, Colin McFarlane
wiley   +1 more source

The Experience of Suspension among Political Identities; Kurdish Nationality and Aspiration for Kurdistani Citizenship among Kurdish Immigrants in Western Europe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 363-386, December 2024.
Abstract The conflict between the Perso‐Shiite state and its opposition, especially Kurdish political organizations in Iran/Eastern Kurdistan, and their subsequent suppression, has led to the migration of many Kurds since the early 1980s. This exodus has affected their political identification.
Sabah Mofidi
wiley   +1 more source

Bookchin’s libertarian municipalism

Cadernos de Campo, 2019
The purpose of this article is to present the Libertarian Municipalism Theory developed by Murray Bookchin. The text is divided into two sections. The first section presents the main precepts of Libertarian Municipalism.
Janet Biehl
doaj  

Kurdish women in northern and eastern Syria: an intersectional struggle against violence

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
This paper analyses the organisational strategies of Kurdish women in northern and eastern Syria in response to overlapping forms of violence, taking an intersectional perspective. To that end, it examines various women-driven legal and social strategies,
Cristina de Lucio Atonal
doaj   +1 more source

“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars

American Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 3, Page 509-520, September 2024.
Abstract This article focuses on female bodies co‐laboring across the racial lines and academic‐activist divides to explore both the potentials and constraints of feminist solidarity in the hyper‐masculine and ultra‐nationalist normative order of the global war on terror.
Serra Hakyemez, Ozlem Yasak
wiley   +1 more source

A constitution beyond the state: an examination of the Social Contract of Rojava

Global Social Challenges Journal
While constitutions and nation states are typically understood as mutually constitutive within the post-Westphalian order, contemporary social and political movements of stateless and Indigenous peoples across the world have articulated radical social ...
Leila Faghfouri Azar, Eleanor Finley, Omer Pacal   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty

American Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 394-396, August 2024.
Abstract This commentary asks what would change about the analyses in AE’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum if the state were not assumed as the background. Using research on unrecognized states and their citizens, the commentary urges a return to the problem of sovereignty that takes seriously the desires that sovereignty evokes ...
Rebecca Bryant
wiley   +1 more source

Radical Democracy in Translation. Transfeminist Encounters with Kurdish Political Thought, Practices and Struggles

Partecipazione e Conflitto
This paper explores the possibility of 'translation' between different social, cultural, and political genealogies, focusing on the relationship between Europe and Rojava in constructing a radical alternative.
Federica Giardini
doaj   +3 more sources