ECOSOC - Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade
Seminar| ECOSOC-CES
Anticapitalist Economy in Rojava. Contradictions of the revolution in the kurdish struggle
Azize Aslan (Ativista do Movimento Mulheres do Curdistão)
February 25, 2022, 14h30 (GMT)
Online
Comments: Eleonora Gea Piccardi | Moderator: Karina Almeida Guimarães Pinhão
Overview
Discussion of the book Economía anticapitalista en Rojava. Las contradicciones de la revolución en la lucha kurda by Azize Aslan
[Download the book HEREI ]
Azize Aslan is a Kurdish woman, sociologist and activist in the Kurdistan women's movement. She studied development economics in Istanbul, when she started working on the organization of social/alternative economies, cooperatives and feminist economics and supported the organization of Eko-Jin [Women's Economy] cooperatives in the Kurdish area of Turkey.
She completed her PhD in Mexico at the Universidad Benemérita Autónoma de Puebla and continues to live in this country, where she teaches the master's course "Social Movements and Rebels of the Middle East: Territory and Gender" in the area of Middle East studies at the Colegio de México (Colmex).
In her PhD thesis, Aslan worked on autonomy and social economy in Northern and Eastern Syria, and her thesis won the Jorge Alonso Chair Award, Universidad de Guadalajara-CIESAS. Her book was published under the title "Anticapitalist Economy in Rojava: Contradictions in the Kurdish struggle" (Cátedra Interinstitucional de la Universidad de Guadalajara-CIESAS: 2021) and constitutes the most detailed and complete work on the processes of anticapitalist and ecologist economic self-organization within the Kurdish movement and, in particular, in the autonomous region in the North and East of Syria.
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