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"Surrounded by enemies including ISIS and hostile Turkish forces, the people in Syria's Rojava region are carving out one of the most radically progressive societies on the planet. Visitors have been astounded by the success of their project, a communally organised democracy which considers women's equality indispensable, has a deep-reaching ecological policies, and rejects reactionary nationalist ideology. This form of organization, labeled democratic confederalism, is both fiercely anti-capitalist and boasts a self-defense capacity which is keeping ISIS from their gates. Drawing on their own firsthand experiences of working and fighting in the region, the authors provide the first detailed account of a revolutionary experiment and a new vision of politics and society in the Middle East and beyond"--Back cover

Cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction by International Initiative -- One: Jumping on the Bus by John Holloway -- Two: Öcalan, European Law, and the Kurdish Question by Norman Paech -- Three: A Grand and Comprehensive Dialogue by Ekkehard Sauermann -- Four: Preface to The Road Map by Immanuel Wallerstein -- Five: Prologue to Abdullah Öcalan's The Road Map to Negotiations by Arnaldo Otegi -- Six: From World System to Democratic Civilization by Barry K. Gills -- Seven: "A Prisoner Who Is Becoming Mythical" by Antonio Negri -- Eight: Abdullah Öcalan by Peter Lamborn Wilson -- Nine: Öcalan's Manifesto and the Challenge of Transcending Centricity by Donald H. Matthews and Thomas Jeffrey Miley -- Ten: Historiography, Gender, and Resistance by Muriel González Athenas -- Eleven: Reading Öcalan as a South Asian Woman by Radha D'Souza -- Twelve: "There Can Be No Utopia or Reality That Is More Ambitious Than This": The Democratic Modernism of Svetozar Marković and Abdullah Öcalan by Andrej Grubačić -- Thirteen: Imaginary Dialogues with Öcalan: Updating Critical Thinking by Raúl Zibechi -- Fourteen: Making Connections: Jineolojî, Women's Liberation, and Building Peace by Mechthild Exo -- Fifteen: Öcalan as Thinker: On the Unity of Theory and Practice as Form of Writing by David Graeber -- Sixteen: Rojava or the Art of Transition in a Collapsing Civilization by Fabian Scheidler -- Seventeen: When Öcalan Met Bookchin: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Political Theory of Democratic Confederalism by Damian Gerber and Shannon Brincat -- Eighteen: Re-enchantment of the Political: Abdullah Öcalan, Democratic Confederalism, and the Politics of Reasonableness by Patrick Huff -- Nineteen: The Theology of Democratic Modernity: Labor, Truth, and Freedom by Nazan Üstündağ.

Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy-or the reemergence of old forms-as people try to reconstitute an imagined past of stable moral order. This is evident from the Islamic revival in the Middle East to visions of the 1950s family among conservatives in the United States. Why does this happen and how do we make sense of this phenomenon? Why do some communities see hierarchy as desireable? In this book, leading anthropologists draw on insightful ethnographic case studies from around the world to address these trends. Together, they develop a theory of hierarchy that treats it both as a relational form and a framework for organizing ideas about the social good