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#Agriculture and Autonomy in the Middle East

In Rojava, a region in Syria also known as North #Kurdistan, a groundbreaking experiment in communal living, social justice, and ecological vitality is taking place. Devastated by civil war, Syria is a place where a cessation of hostilities often seems like the most that can be hoped for. But Rojava has set its sights much higher. What started as a movement for political autonomy in the city of Kobane has blossomed into an attempt to build a radical pluralist democracy on the principles of communal solidarity — with food security, equality for women, and a localized, anti-capitalist economy at its core.

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REVOLUTION IN #ROJAVA BY #MICHAEL_KNAPP, #ANJA_FLACH, AND #ERCAN_AYBOGA

In the last decades, “weak thought” philosophies and postmodern approaches have accustomed a great part of critical scholarship to think that revolutions are no longer suitable for the political agenda of the 21st century. According to the authors of Revolution in Rojava, the Rojava experience challenges this assumption. Based in Germany and in Syria, Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, and Ercan Ayboga have been direct witnesses of this revolution and provide an example of participatory and sympathetic social fieldwork that uses “a feminist, internationalist, ecological and left-libertarian approach” (xxvi). The book was translated into English by Janet Biehl, anarchist thinker and biographer of Murray Bookchin (1926-2001), and the foreword was written by another anarchist scholar, David Graeber, who argues that this experience upsets long-lasting assumptions that “peoples of the Middle East were desperately backwards” (xiii).

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