I’ve posted here before about the Kurdish experiment in social-ecological-feminist radical democracy that’s been unfolding in the unlikeliest circumstances in the northern Syrian region of Rojava. Donald Trump’s sudden announcement of a complete U.S. military withdrawal from Syria now leaves that experiment extremely vulnerable… which puts anti-war* activists into an uncomfortable position. (I add that […]
Posts Tagged ‘Rojava’
Rojava at risk
Posted in Politics, tagged anti-war, Bookchin, foreign policy, Kurdistan, Kurds, Rojava, social ecology, Syria, war on December 19, 2018 | 2 Comments »
Bioregionalism primer
Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, tagged bioregionalism, deep ecology, eco-primitivism, ecoregionalism, Fifth Estate, local foods movement, locavorism, Murray Bookchin, Peter Berg, Rojava, social ecology, watershed on June 23, 2017 | 6 Comments »
When I began my involvement with environmental politics in the 1980s, the main currents of radical or critical thought were represented by deep ecologists (or biocentrists), social ecologists (gathered around Murray Bookchin and his Institute for Social Ecology), and ecofeminists, and they seemed more at odds with each other than united. Marxists and socialists (especially around […]
Assessing Murray Bookchin’s legacy
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged Bookchin, Damian White, eco-anarchism, Janet Biehl, Kurdish revolutionary movement, libertarian municipalism, Murray Bookchin, Rojava on July 12, 2016 | 5 Comments »
Damian White has posted an excellent review of Janet Biehl’s book Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin at the Jacobin blog. Bookchin’s legacy has undergone something of a revival of late thanks to the efforts of Kurdish eco-socialist communitarians in Rojava.
The Rojava Experiment
Posted in Politics, tagged Bookchin, Kurdish revolutionary movement, libertarian municipalism, Murray Bookchin, Ocalan, PKK, Rojava, social ecology, Syria on November 29, 2015 | 3 Comments »
Wes Enzinna’s New York Times Magazine article on “The Rojava Experiment” finally gives mainstream recognition to what has been happening among the Kurds of northern Syria. As he writes, “In accordance with a philosophy laid out by a leftist revolutionary named Abdullah Ocalan, Rojavan women had been championed as leaders, defense of the environment enshrined […]
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