Stephen E. Hunt (editor) - Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities

Ecological Solidarity
and the Kurdish
Freedom Movement

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Ecological Solidarity
and the Kurdish
Freedom Movement

Thought, Practice, Challenges,
and Opportunities

Edited by
Stephen E. Hunt

Foreword by John P. Clark

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Names: Hunt, Stephen E., editor. | Clark, John P., 1945- writer of foreword.

Title: Ecological solidarity and the Kurdish freedom movement : thought, practice, challenges, and opportunities / edited by Stephen E. Hunt ; foreword by John P. Clark.

Other titles: Environment and society (Lanham, Md.) Description: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2021. | Series: Environment and society | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021034437 (print) | LCCN 2021034438 (ebook) | ISBN 9781793633842 (cloth) | ISBN 9781793633859 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Social ecologyMiddle East. | Political ecologyMiddle East. | EnvironmentalismMiddle East. | Women, KurdishPolitical activityMiddle East. | Environmental protectionMiddle East. | Environmental policyMiddle East. | Middle EastEnvironmental conditions.

Classification: LCC GE199.M628 E26 2021 (print) | LCC GE199.M628 (ebook) | DDC 304.209566/7dc23

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Contents

John P. Clark

Stephen E. Hunt

Federico Venturini

Cihad Hammy

Engin Sustam

Nicholas Hildyard

Ercan Ayboa

Meneke Kizildere

Clmence Scalbert-Ycel

Michel P. Pimbert

Fabiana Cioni and Domenico Patassini

Azize Aslan; (translated from Spanish by Karen Tiedtke)

Allan Hassaniyan

Kumru Toktam and Isabel David

Laurent Dissard

Marlene A. Payva Almonte and Thomas James Phillips

Stephen E. Hunt

Ahmet Kerim Gltekin

Dila Deniz

Pinar Dinc

Ceri Gibbons

Stephen E. Hunt

Stephen E. Hunt

Figures

(March 3, 2021), approximately covering Kurdish majority region. Reference 2efa1ea8-8218-48a1-b1ba-e4f276159ded (approved March 17, 2021). Source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Generated by Stephen Hunt.

Mining at Mardin in 2018. Source: Mesopotamia Ecology Movement.

Mountains of Dersim. Source: Pinar Dinc.

Logo of the Mesopotamia Ecology Movement. Source: Mesopotamia Ecology Movement.

Demonstration at Hasankeyf in 2008. Source: Mesopotamia Ecology Movement.

Ilisu protest in 2015, a few kilometers away from the site of the dam. Source: Mesopotamia Ecology Movement.

Assembly of the Mesopotamia Ecology Movement in 2016. Source: Mesopotamia Ecology Movement.

Assembly of the Mesopotamia Ecology Movement in 2016. Source: Mesopotamia Ecology Movement.

Agroecology Workshop at Amed in 2016. Source: Mesopotamia Ecology Movement.

Traditional House Constructed by the Mesopotamia Ecology Movement at Amed, in 2017. Source: Mesopotamia Ecology Movement.

Anti-Nuclear Symbol in Kurdish. Source: Mesopotamia Ecology Movement.

Five Levels of Food System Change and FAOs Elements of Agroecology. Adapted from Gliessman 2015 and FAO 2018. Source: Biovision.

Main Lodge at Jinwar, Used for Eating Together During the Summer Season, May 2019. Source: Fabiana Cioni.

Night Setting at Main Loggia, May 2019. Source: Fabiana Cioni.

Woman Cleaning the Main Lodge, May 2019. Source: Fabiana Cioni.

Women Taking Care of their Garden and Planting Fruit Trees Donated to the Village by the Agriculture Committee of Drik, May 2019. Source: Fabiana Cioni.

View of Sifa Jins Building, May 2019. Source: Fabiana Cioni.

Tree Planting In Front of Sahmaran Mural, June 2019. Source: Fabiana Cioni.

Stop destroying Milli Village Campaign. Source: Caner Canerik.

Poster which Links the Celebration of International Workers Day on 1 May with Ecology. Source: Ekoloji Birlii.

Rise and Fall in the Number of Conflicts and Fires in Dersim during the Dry Seasons between 2009 and 2015. Source: Pinar Dinc.