Tatort Kurdistan

Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan (eBook, ePUB)

The Council Movement, Gender Liberation, and Ecology
Übersetzer: Biehl, Janet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In order to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question, the Kurdish Freedom Movement in Turkey has developed an alternative social model: Democratic Autonomy. In the fall of 2011, a group of TATORT activists journeyed into the Kurdish regions of Turkey to learn how the theory of Democratic Autonomy was being put into practice. They discovered a remarkable experiment in face-to-face democracy-all the more notable for being carried out in wartime. Since 2005, under the most difficult of conditions, the movement in North Kurdistan has created structures for a democratic, ecological and gender-liberated society. At its core is a system of councils in villages, cities, and neighborhoods. These structures do not yet offer a way of life that is fully independent of the nation-state and the market economy, but they nonetheless reveal a potent civil counter-power. The interviews and documentation in this book provide thought-provoking glimpses into the practical implementation of a new left vision. The radical democratic awakening of the Kurds may serve as an inspiration for social change in the Middle East and elsewhere.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Compass Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788293064275
• Artikelnr.: 50718091

Autorenporträt

Campaign TATORT Kurdistan (Crime Scene Kurdistan) seeks to raise awareness of the historic plight of the Kurds, document the role of German firms and government in the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, and organize protests in Germany.