Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement explores the social ecology and communalism behind Kurdish political structures, evaluating practical green projects and challenging contested themes. It highlights the West's need to learn from the Kurdish ecological paradigm, offering insight into social movement debates about development and decolonization.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 398 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities is a groundbreaking book that explores the social ecology and communalism underlying the evolving political structures in the Kurdish region. It evaluates practical green projects such as 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 contested themes such as Alevi nature beliefs, anti-dam demonstrations, human-rights law and climate change, the Gezi Park protests, and forest fires. Despite the formidable challenges faced by the Kurdish initiatives, including state repression, damaged infrastructure, and oil dependency, the West has much to learn from the Kurdish ecological paradigm, which offers insight into social movement debates about development and decolonization.

Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities

Ecological 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.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793633866