(DOWNLOAD) "Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan" by TATORT Kurdistan & Janet Biehl * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan
Author : TATORT Kurdistan & Janet Biehl
Release Date : January 17, 2013
Genre: World Affairs,Books,Politics & Current Events,
Pages : * pages
Size : 2028 KB

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In order to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question, the Kurdish Freedom Movement in Turkey has developed an alternative social model: Democratic Autonomy.

In the fall of 2011, a group of TATORT activists journeyed into the Kurdish regions of Turkey to learn how the theory of Democratic Autonomy was being put into practice. They discovered a remarkable experiment in face-to-face democracy—all the more notable for being carried out in wartime.

Since 2005, under the most difficult of conditions, the movement in North Kurdistan has created structures for a democratic, ecological and gender-liberated society. At its core is a system of councils in villages, cities, and neighborhoods. These structures do not yet offer a way of life that is fully independent of the nation-state and the market economy, but they nonetheless reveal a potent civil counter-power.

The interviews and documentation in this book provide thought-provoking glimpses into the practical implementation of a new left vision. The radical democratic awakening of the Kurds may serve as an inspiration for social change in the Middle East and elsewhere.