Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement

Stephen E. Hunt is academic skills coordinator for the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of the West of England.

• Introduction: Ecology in the Kurdish ParadigmPart I: TheoryChapter 1: The Value of Social Ecology in the Struggles to ComeFederico VenturiniChapter 2: Social Ecology in Öcalan’s ThinkingCihad HammyChapter 3: Ecological Self-Governmentality in Kurdish Space at a Time of Neoliberal AuthoritarianismEngin Sustam Chapter 4: Radical or Reactionary Tomatoes? Organizing against the Toxic Legacy of Capital’s EnvironmentalismNicholas HildyardPart II: Positive Initiatives for Ecological ChangeChapter 5: Ecology Structures of the Kurdish Freedom MovementErcan AybogaChapter 6: An Interview with HDP Ecology Commission Co-Spokesperson, Menekse Kizildere. Chapter 7: Greening and Feeding the City: The Difficult Path to the Implementation of Political Ecology in Diyarbakir/Amed, 2015-2017Clémence Scalbert-YücelChapter 8: Regenerating Kurdish Ecologies Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, and Economies of CareMichel P. PimbertChapter 9: Free Life Together: Jinwar, the Women's Eco-villageFabiana Cioni and Domenico PatassiniChapter 10: Women’s Subjectivity and the Ecological and Communal EconomyAzize Aslan; translated from Spanish by Karen TiedtkePart III: Social Movements and Environmental ActivismChapter 11: Environmental Activism in Rojhelat: Emergence and ObjectivesAllan Hassaniyan Chapter 12: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and Gezi: Strategic Reluctance and Tactical AmbiguitiesKumru Toktamis and Isabel David Chapter 13: Hasankeyf, the Ilisu Dam, and the Kurdish Movement in TurkeyLaurent DissardChapter 14: The Kurdish Ecology Movement and Human RightsMarlene A. Payya Almonte and Thomas James PhillipsChapter 15: The Internationalist Project to Make Rojava Green AgainStephen E. HuntPart IV: Nature Protection and Kurdish AlevismChapter 16: Dersim as a Sacred Land: Contemporary Kurdish Alevi Ethno-Politics and Environmental StruggleAhmet Kerim Gültekin Chapter 17: The Philosophy of Ecology and Rêya Heqî: Religion, Nature, and FemininityDilsa Deniz Part V: Conflict and Environmental DestructionChapter 18: Forest fires in Dersim and Sirnak: Conflict and Environmental DestructionPinar DincChapter 19: Breaking the Kill Chain: Exposing to Challenge British State and International Corporate Complicity in Turkey's Killer Drone IndustryCeri GibbonsPart VI: ConclusionsChapter 20: “To Plant the Tree of Tomorrow”: Seeding and Spiraling Ecologically Aware Democratic Autonomy Beyond the Kurdish Freedom MovementStephen E. HuntChapter 21: Concluding Reflections on the Kurdish Ecology InitiativesStephen E. Hunt

Stephen E. Hunt has put together an incredibly rich collection of informative, thought-provoking, and daring contributions in this rare gem. Contributions range from chapters on theoretical aspects of ecology to those on environmental activism and blossoming empirical innovations a la democratic confederalism—from excavations on cultural origins of nature protection to novel perspectives that emanate from contemporary eco-conservationist ideals in Kurdistan. This book offers more than a wide range of analyses on Kurdish politics; it also points towards new political possibilities that have global relevance.