Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities

Introduction: Ecology in the Kurdish Paradigm
Part I: Theory
Chapter 1: The Value of Social Ecology in the Struggles to Come
Federico Venturini
Chapter 2: Social Ecology in Öcalan's Thinking
Cihad Hammy
Chapter 3: Ecological Self-Governmentality in Kurdish Space at a Time of Neoliberal Authoritarianism
Engin Sustam
Chapter 4: Radical or Reactionary Tomatoes? Organizing against the Toxic Legacy of Capital's Environmentalism
Nicholas Hildyard
Part II: Positive Initiatives for Ecological Change
Chapter 5: Ecology Structures of the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Ercan Ayboga
Chapter 6: An Interview with HDP Ecology Commission Co-Spokesperson, Menekse Kizildere.
Chapter 7: Greening and Feeding the City: The Difficult Path to the Implementation of Political Ecology in Diyarbakir/Amed, 2015-2017
Clémence Scalbert-Yücel
Chapter 8: Regenerating Kurdish Ecologies Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, and Economies of Care
Michel P. Pimbert
Chapter 9: Free Life Together: Jinwar, the Women's Eco-village
Fabiana Cioni and Domenico Patassini
Chapter 10: Women's Subjectivity and the Ecological and Communal Economy
Azize Aslan; translated from Spanish by Karen Tiedtke
Part III: Social Movements and Environmental Activism
Chapter 11: Environmental Activism in Rojhelat: Emergence and Objectives
Allan Hassaniyan
Chapter 12: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and Gezi: Strategic Reluctance and Tactical Ambiguities
Kumru Toktamis and Isabel David
Chapter 13: Hasankeyf, the Ilisu Dam, and the Kurdish Movement in Turkey
Laurent Dissard
Chapter 14: The Kurdish Ecology Movement and Human Rights
Marlene A. Payya Almonte and Thomas James Phillips
Chapter 15: The Internationalist Project to Make Rojava Green Again
Stephen E. Hunt
Part IV: Nature Protection and Kurdish Alevism
Chapter 16: Dersim as a Sacred Land: Contemporary Kurdish Alevi Ethno-Politics and Environmental Struggle
Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
Chapter 17: The Philosophy of Ecology and Rêya Heqî: Religion, Nature, and Femininity
Dilsa Deniz
Part V: Conflict and Environmental Destruction
Chapter 18: Forest fires in Dersim and Sirnak: Conflict and Environmental Destruction
Pinar Dinc
Chapter 19: Breaking the Kill Chain: Exposing to Challenge British State and International Corporate Complicity in Turkey's Killer Drone Industry
Ceri Gibbons
Part VI: Conclusions
Chapter 20: "To Plant the Tree of Tomorrow": Seeding and Spiraling Ecologically Aware Democratic Autonomy Beyond the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Stephen E. Hunt
Chapter 21: Concluding Reflections on the Kurdish Ecology Initiatives
Stephen E. Hunt