Thomas Schmidinger

Rojava (eBook, ePUB)

Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Kurdish territory of Rojava in Syria has become a watchword for radical democracy, communalism and gender equality. But while Western radicals continue to project their own values onto the revolution, the complexities of the situation are often overlooked or misunderstood.

Based on over 17 years of research and fieldwork, Thomas Schmidinger provides a detailed introduction to the history and political situation in Rojava. Outlining the history of the Kurds in Syria from the late Ottoman Empire until the Syrian civil war, he describes the developments in Rojava since 2011: the protests against the regime, the establishment of a Kurdish para-state, the conflicts between the parties about the administration of the Kurdish territory and how the PYD and its People's Councils rule the territory.

The book draws on interviews with political leaders of different parties, civil society activists, artists, fighters and religious leaders in order to paint an complex picture of the historical conflict and the contemporary situation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2018
• Deutsch
• ISBN-13: 9781786802552
• Artikelnr.: 53371588

Autorenporträt

Thomas Schmidinger is a Political Scientist and Cultural Anthropologist based at the University of Vienna. He is Secretary General of the Austrian Association for Kurdish studies. He is the author of Rojava, which received the Mezlum Bagok award.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Long Struggle for Autonomy
1. Backgrounds and Methods of Social Science Research in a War Zone
2. Kurds, Arabs, Armenians and Assyrians: Rojava as a Part of the Ethnic Diversity
3. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Aleivis and Ezidi: Religious Pluralism in Rojava
4. Kurdistan: Land Without State or Land Against the State
5. Syrian-Kurdistan Under French Protectorate
6. Kurds in Independent Syria
7. In the Cross-Hair Pointer of Panarabism: From the United Arab Republic to Baathism
8. Special Census and Statelessness
9. Kurds Under Baathist Rule
10. Between Two Short Springs: Rojava Under Bashar Al-Assad
11. The Landscape of Kurdish Political Parties
12. From Revolution to Civil War
Part II: Voices from Rojava
13. Rojava, Quo Vadis?