{"product_id":"ecological-solidarity-and-the-kurdish-freedom-movement-thought-practice-challenges-and-opportunities-9781793633866","title":"Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEcological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities is a pioneering text that examines the ideas about social ecology and communalism behind the evolving political structures in the Kurdish region. The collection evaluates practical green projects, including the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, Jinwar women’s eco-village, food sovereignty in a solidarity economy, environmental defenders in Iranian Kurdistan, and Make Rojava Green Again. Contributors also critically reflect on such contested themes as Alevi nature beliefs, anti-dam demonstrations, human-rights law and climate change, the Gezi Park protests, and forest fires. Throughout this volume, the contributors consider the formidable challenges to the Kurdish initiatives, such as state repression, damaged infrastructure, and oil dependency. Nevertheless, contributors assert that the West has much to learn from the Kurdish ecological paradigm, which offers insight into social movement debates about development and decolonization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen E. Hunt has put together an incredibly rich collection of informative, thought-provoking, and daring contributions in this rare gem. Contributions range from chapters on theoretical aspects of ecology to those on environmental activism and blossoming empirical innovations a la democratic confederalism—from excavations on cultural origins of nature protection to novel perspectives that emanate from contemporary eco-conservationist ideals in Kurdistan. This book offers more than a wide range of analyses on Kurdish politics; it also points towards new political possibilities that have global relevance.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Hanifi Baris, University of Aberdeen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Ecology in the Kurdish Paradigm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Value of Social Ecology in the Struggles to Come\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFederico Venturini\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Social Ecology in Öcalan’s Thinking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCihad Hammy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Ecological Self-Governmentality in Kurdish Space at a Time of Neoliberal Authoritarianism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngin Sustam \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Radical or Reactionary Tomatoes? Organizing against the Toxic Legacy of Capital’s Environmentalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas Hildyard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Positive Initiatives for Ecological Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Ecology Structures of the Kurdish Freedom Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErcan Ayboğa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: An Interview with HDP Ecology Commission Co-Spokesperson, Menekşe Kizildere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Greening and Feeding the City: The Difficult Path to the Implementation of Political Ecology in Diyarbakır\/Amed, 2015-2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClémence Scalbert-Yücel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Regenerating Kurdish Ecologies Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, and Economies of Care\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichel P. Pimbert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Free Life Together: Jinwar, the Women's Eco-village\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFabiana Cioni and Domenico Patassini\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Women’s Subjectivity and the Ecological and Communal Economy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAzize Aslan; translated from Spanish by Karen Tiedtke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Social Movements and Environmental Activism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Environmental Activism in Rojhelat: Emergence and Objectives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan Hassaniyan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and Gezi: Strategic Reluctance and Tactical Ambiguities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKumru Toktamis and Isabel David \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Hasankeyf, the Ilısu Dam, and the Kurdish Movement in Turkey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurent Dissard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: The Kurdish Ecology Movement and Human Rights\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarlene A. Payya Almonte and Thomas James Phillips\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: The Internationalist Project to Make Rojava Green Again\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen E. Hunt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Nature Protection and Kurdish Alevism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Dersim as a Sacred Land: Contemporary Kurdish Alevi Ethno-Politics and Environmental Struggle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAhmet Kerim Gültekin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: The Philosophy of Ecology and Rêya Heqî: Religion, Nature, and Femininity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDilsa Deniz \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V: Conflict and Environmental Destruction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: Forest fires in Dersim and Şırnak: Conflict and Environmental Destruction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePinar Dinc\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Breaking the Kill Chain: Exposing to Challenge British State and International Corporate Complicity in Turkey's Killer Drone Industry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCeri Gibbons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VI: Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20: “To Plant the Tree of Tomorrow”: Seeding and Spiraling Ecologically Aware Democratic Autonomy Beyond the Kurdish Freedom Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen E. Hunt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21: Concluding Reflections on the Kurdish Ecology Initiatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen E. Hunt\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042666676567,"sku":"9781793633866","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793633866.jpg?v=1750955085","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ecological-solidarity-and-the-kurdish-freedom-movement-thought-practice-challenges-and-opportunities-9781793633866","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}