To Dare Imagining: Rojava Revolution
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Publisher: Autonomedia
Author: Edited by Dilar Dirik, David Levi Strauss, Michael Taussig, and Peter Lamborn Wilson
Publisher: Autonomedia
ISBN: 9781570273124
Published: 02/2016
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Page count: 160
Edited by Dilar Dirik, David Levi Strauss, Michael Taussig, and Peter Lamborn Wilson, a myriad of writers all discuss the notion of "revolution" and try to answer the question "Is a revolution really possible?".
Table of Contents:
“Preface” The Editors
“Hope in Rojava” David Levi Strauss
“Syria’s Kurdish Revolution: The Anarchist Element and the Challenge of Solidarity” Bill Weinberg
“Why Is the World Ignoring the Revolutionary Kurds in Syria?” David Graeber
“No. This Is a Genuine Revolution” David Graeber & Pinar Öğünç
“Abdullah Öcalan” Peter Lamborn Wilson
Öcalan’s Angels” Newsha Tavakolian
“No Miracles at Work” Havin Güneşer
“A Revolution of Life” Saleh Muslim & Jonas Staal
“Woman fighters of the YPJ” Murat Bay
“Two Excerpts from ‘Liberating Life: Women’s Revolution” Abdullah Öcalan
“New Wars and Autonomous Self-Defense in Kurdistan” Nazan Üstündağ
Dispatches From Rojava” El Errante / Paul Z. Simons
Rojava: To Dare Imagining” Dilar Dirik
“The Mastery of Non-Mastery” Michael Taussig
Acknowledgments & Bios
Sources & Resources
The Charter of the Rojava Cantons
“Preface,” The Editors
“Hope in Rojava,” David Levi Strauss
“Syria’s Kurdish Revolution: The Anarchist Element and the Challenge of Solidarity,” Bill Weinberg
“Why Is the World Ignoring the Revolutionary Kurds in Syria?” David Graeber
“No. This Is a Genuine Revolution,” David Graeber & Pinar Öğünç
“Abdullah Öcalan,” Peter Lamborn Wilson
Öcalan’s Angels,” Newsha Tavakolian
“No Miracles at Work,” Havin Güneşer
“A Revolution of Life,” Saleh Muslim & Jonas Staal
“Woman fighters of the YPJ,” Murat Bay
“Two Excerpts from ‘Liberating Life: Women’s Revolution’,” Abdullah Öcalan
“New Wars and Autonomous Self-Defense in Kurdistan,” Nazan Üstündağ
Dispatches From Rojava,” El Errante / Paul Z. Simons
Rojava: To Dare Imagining,” Dilar Dirik
“The Mastery of Non-Mastery,” Michael Taussig
Acknowledgments & Bios
Sources & Resources
The Charter of the Rojava Cantons
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