Ecology and Decoloniality in Rojava/North and East Syria

Necmettin Tu¨rk is lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Germany and the University of Rojava, Syria.Joost Jongerden is an Associate Professor in the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.Stephen E. Hunt is Senior Learning Developer at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

• IntroductionNecmettin Türk (University of Hamburg), Joost Jongerden (Wageningen University), and Stephen E. Hunt (University of the West of England, Bristol)SECTION I: War, Extractivism and Ecocide in Kurdistan1: Mountains of Strife: Armed Conflict and Environmental Degradation in KurdistanLina Eklund (Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science & CMES, Lund University) and Pinar Dinç (Department of Political Science & CMES, Lund University)2: Revolution on a Dying Planet: Environmental Catastrophes and Political Ecology of North-East SyriaMarcin Skupinski (University of Warsaw)3: Extractivism and Ecocide under the Justice and Development Party (JDP) Bengi Akbulut (Concordia University, Montréal)SECTION II: Ecological Crisis and Perspective of Ecology in Democratic Modernity4: The Challenges of a Kurdish Ecofeminist Perspective: Maria Mies, Abdullah Öcalan, and the Praxis of JineolojîGea Piccardi (University of Coimbra, Portugal)5: Öcalan, the Third Nature, and the Dissolution of the PKKDavide Grasso (University of Turin)SECTION III: Interweaving the Ecological Struggle in Kurdistan with the Anti-Colonialist and Anti-capitalist Struggle6: Decolonisation of Agriculture: Challenging Colonisation through the Reconstruction of Agriculture in Western Kurdistan (Rojava)Necmettin Türk (University of Hamburg) and Joost Jongerden (Wageningen University)7: “Education under a Tree”: Greening Education through Ecopedagogy in North and East Syria (Rojava)Stephen E. Hunt (University of the West of England, Bristol) and Necmettin Türk (University of Hamburg)8: Interweaving International and Ecological SolidarityInterview with Make Rojava Green Again/International Rojava CommuneConclusion: Challenges and Possibilities Necmettin Türk (University of Hamburg), Joost Jongerden (Wageningen University), and Stephen E. Hunt (University of the West of England, Bristol)