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 Paradigm Part I: Theory Chapter 1: The Value of Social Ecology in the Struggles to Come Federico Venturini Chapter 2: Social Ecology in OEcalan's Thinking Cihad Hammy Chapter 3: Ecological Self-Governmentality in Kurdish Space at a Time of Neoliberal Authoritarianism Engin Sustam Chapter 4: Radical or Reactionary Tomatoes? Organizing against the Toxic Legacy of Capital's Environmentalism Nicholas Hildyard Part II: Positive Initiatives for Ecological Change Chapter 5: Ecology Structures of the Kurdish Freedom Movement Ercan Ayboga Chapter 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, 2015-2017 Clemence Scalbert-Yucel Chapter 8: Regenerating Kurdish Ecologies Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, and Economies of Care Michel P. Pimbert Chapter 9: Free Life Together: Jinwar, the Women's Eco-village Fabiana Cioni and Domenico Patassini Chapter 10: Women's Subjectivity and the Ecological and Communal Economy Azize Aslan; translated from Spanish by Karen Tiedtke Part III: Social Movements and Environmental Activism Chapter 11: Environmental Activism in Rojhelat: Emergence and Objectives Allan Hassaniyan Chapter 12: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and Gezi: Strategic Reluctance and Tactical Ambiguities Kumru Toktamis and Isabel David Chapter 13: Hasankeyf, the Ilisu Dam, and the Kurdish Movement in Turkey Laurent Dissard Chapter 14: The Kurdish Ecology Movement and Human Rights Marlene A. Payya Almonte and Thomas James Phillips Chapter 15: The Internationalist Project to Make Rojava Green Again Stephen E. Hunt Part IV: Nature Protection and Kurdish Alevism Chapter 16: Dersim as a Sacred Land: Contemporary Kurdish Alevi Ethno-Politics and Environmental Struggle Ahmet Kerim Gultekin Chapter 17: The Philosophy of Ecology and Reya Heqi: Religion, Nature, and Femininity Dilsa Deniz Part V: Conflict and Environmental Destruction Chapter 18: Forest fires in Dersim and Sirnak: Conflict and Environmental Destruction Pinar Dinc Chapter 19: Breaking the Kill Chain: Exposing to Challenge British State and International Corporate Complicity in Turkey's Killer Drone Industry Ceri Gibbons Part VI: Conclusions Chapter 20: "To Plant the Tree of Tomorrow": Seeding and Spiraling Ecologically Aware Democratic Autonomy Beyond the Kurdish Freedom Movement Stephen E. Hunt Chapter 21: Concluding Reflections on the Kurdish Ecology Initiatives Stephen 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. -- Hanifi Baris, University of Aberdeen