Ecological solidarity and the Kurdish freedom movement: thought, practice, challenges, and opportunities
In: Environment and society
Introduction : Ecology in the Kurdish Paradigm / Stephen E. Hunt -- The Value of Social Ecology in the Struggles to Come / Federico Venturini -- Social Ecology in Öcalan's Thinking / Cihad Hammy -- Ecological Self-Governmentality in Kurdish Space at a Time of Neoliberal Authoritarianism / Engin Sustam -- Radical or Reactionary Tomatoes? Organizing against the Toxic Legacy of Capital's Environmentalism / Nicholas Hildyard -- Ecology Structures of the Kurdish Freedom Movement / Ercan Ayboğa -- An Interview with HDP Ecology Commission Co-Spokesperson, Menekşe Kizildere -- Greening and Feeding the City : The Difficult Path to the Implementation of Political Ecology in Diyarbakır/Amed, 2015-2017 / Clémence Scalbert-Yücel -- Regenerating Kurdish Ecologies Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, and Economies of Care / Michel P. Pimbert -- Free Life Together : Jinwar, the Women's Eco-village / Fabiana Cioni and Domenico Patassini -- Women's Subjectivity and the Ecological and Communal Economy / Azize Aslan; translated from Spanish by Karen Tiedtke -- Environmental Activism in Rojhelat : Emergence and Objectives / Allan Hassaniyan -- The Kurdish Freedom Movement and Gezi : Strategic Reluctance and Tactical Ambiguities / Kumru Toktamış and Isabel David -- Hasankeyf, the Ilısu Dam, and the Kurdish Movement in Turkey / Laurent Dissard -- The Kurdish Ecology Movement and Human Rights / Marlene A. Payva Almonte and Thomas James Phillips -- The Internationalist Project to Make Rojava Green Again / Stephen E. Hunt -- Dersim as a Sacred Land : Contemporary Kurdish Alevi Ethno-Politics and Environmental Struggle / Ahmet Kerim Gültekin -- The Philosophy of Ecology and Rêya Heqî : Religion, Nature, and Femininity / Dilşa Deniz -- Forest fires in Dersim and Şırnak : Conflict and Environmental Destruction / Pinar Dinc -- Breaking the Kill Chain : Exposing to Challenge British State and International Corporate Complicity in Turkey's Killer Drone Industry / Ceri Gibbons -- "To Plant the Tree of Tomorrow" : Seeding and Spiraling Ecologically Aware Democratic Autonomy Beyond the Kurdish Freedom Movement / Stephen E. Hunt -- Concluding Reflections on the Kurdish Ecology Initiatives / Stephen E. Hunt