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Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by [Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga, Janet Biehl]

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Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan Kindle Edition

by Michael Knapp (Author), Anja Flach (Author), Ercan Ayboga (Author), Format: Kindle Edition
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Written by long-time activists of the Kurdish freedom movement, this book is the first authentic insight into the complex dimensions of Rojava s radical revolution. From autonomous women's communes to ecological cooperatives to multiethnic peoples self-defense, the authors let us enter a world of freedom cries - a deeply human grassroots revolution with the potential to change the course of Middle Eastern civilization. Recommended for all believers in humanity. --Dilar Dirik, author and activist of the Kurdish Women's Movement

The Kurdish revolution of Democratic Autonomy is of enormous importance for the future of the world. It points a possible way forward out of the tragedy of the Middle East, and more than that: a possible way forward out of the catastrophe that is capitalism. This book is of great help... A careful and detailed account that is filled with personal narrative, it is both easily accessible and very informative. --John Holloway, Professor of Sociology, Autonomous University of Puebla, author of Crack Capitalism (Pluto, 2010) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Written by long-time activists of the Kurdish freedom movement, this book is the first authentic insight into the complex dimensions of Rojava s radical revolution. From autonomous women's communes to ecological cooperatives to multiethnic peoples self-defense, the authors let us enter a world of freedom cries - a deeply human grassroots revolution with the potential to change the course of Middle Eastern civilization. Recommended for all believers in humanity. --Dilar Dirik, author and activist of the Kurdish Women's Movement

The Kurdish revolution of Democratic Autonomy is of enormous importance for the future of the world. It points a possible way forward out of the tragedy of the Middle East, and more than that: a possible way forward out of the catastrophe that is capitalism. This book is of great help... A careful and detailed account that is filled with personal narrative, it is both easily accessible and very informative. --John Holloway, Professor of Sociology, Autonomous University of Puebla, author of Crack Capitalism (Pluto, 2010) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B077L71HVM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pluto Press; 1st edition (20 Oct. 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5994 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0745336590
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Janet Biehl (b. 1953) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and educated at Wesleyan University and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. She works as a freelance copyeditor for major book publishers and is also a translator and pen-and-ink artist.

In 1986 she met the social ecologist Murray Bookchin (b. 1921) and the following year moved to Vermont to collaborate with him. He became her mentor and partner. As a social ecologist, she wrote books and articles advocating radical democracy and an ecological reconstruction of society. After he died in 2006, she began work on his biography. "Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin" was published by Oxford University Press on October 1, 2015.

Bookchin's work has influenced the Kurdish freedom movement, for which Biehl is a sympathizer. She translates books on Kurdish issues from German into English, including "Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan" (New Compass Press, 2013) and "Revolution in Rojava" (Pluto Press, 2016). She is currently translating the three-volume memoirs of Sakine Cansiz, of which volume 1 is published by Pluto in April 2018.

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