Rojava

Thomas Schmidinger

Description

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.

Acknowledgements

Preface to the English Edition

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

The Development of Kurdish Parties

1. The Long Struggle for Autonomy

2. Background and Methods of Social Science Research in War

3. Kurds, Arabs, Armenians, and Assyrians: Rojava as Part of the Ethnic Diversity of Syria

4. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Alevi, and Êzîdî: Religious Pluralism in Rojava

5. Kurdistan: Country without a State or Country against the State

6. Syrian Kurdistan under the French Protectorate

7. Kurds in Independent Syria

8. In the Crosshairs of Pan-Arabism: From the United Arab Republic to Ba‘athism

9. Special Census and Statelessness

10. The Kurds under Ba‘athist Rule

11. Between Two Brief Springs: Rojava under Bashar al-Assad

12. The Kurdish Party Landscape

13. From Revolution to Civil War

14. Military Developments since 2012

15. Political Economy in the Civil War

16. The Kurdish Districts of Aleppo

17. The Kurdish Para-State in Rojava

18. Voices from Rojava

19. Conclusion: Rojava, Quo Vadis?

Bibliography

List of Interviews

Notes

Index

Sujets

• Political Freedom
• International Relations
• Middle Est
• Modern
• HISTORY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Histoire
• Women
• Partido de los Trabajadores de Kurdistán
• Alepo
• Kurdistán
• Bashar al Assad
• Turquía
• Irán
• Military history
• Authoritarianism
• 21st century
• Fatty Joins the Force
• Afrin
• Iraq
• Syria
• Modern history
• History of the Middle East
• Humanitarian aid
• Armenians
• Kurdish
• Autonomy
• Geopolitics
• Aleppo
• General officer
• Military
• Kurdistan Workers' Party
• Woman
• Revolution
• Ottoman Empire
• Middle East
• Kurdish people
• Damascus
• Druze
• Civil war
• The Women
• General
• Révolution (homonymie)
• Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan
• Abdullah Öcalan
• Democracy
• Turkey
• Borders
• Irak
• Obermodern-Zutzendorf
• Druzes
• Kurdistan
• Alep
• Iran

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 juin 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786802552
• Langue: German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Rojava

Rojava

Revolution, War, and the Future of Syria’s Kurds

Thomas Schmidinger

Translated by Michael Schiffmann

First published asKrieg und Revolution in Syrisch-Kurdistan: Analysen und Stimmen aus Rojava, by Mandelbaum Verlag, Austria www.mandelbaum.at

English edition first published 2018 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA

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Copyright © Thomas Schmidinger 2017, 2018; English language translation © Michael Schiffmann 2018

The right of Thomas Schmidinger to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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