Join us Saturday, February 19th at 2pm EST for the next session of our study group series on Rojava and the Zapatistas. This session we’ll be discussing the theories and practices of alternative justice in the Kurdish and the Zapatista movement.
We will be joined by a researcher from North Kurdistan (Turkey) who will share with us her insights into how the Kurdish movement's alternative justice system has been functioning there.
Feel free to join even if you don't get to do the readings!
Register for the Zoom link here: https://bit.ly/3Be2j9N
Main readings:
Chiapas
Mariana Mora. Section “The Politics of Justice and Conflict Resolution in the Caracol IV,” pp. 96-102, in The Politics of Justice: Zapatista Autonomy at the Margins of the Neoliberal Mexican State, 2015.
Hilary Klein. Section “Justice Through Community Accountability,” pp. 181-188, in Companeras, 2015.
Rojava
Michael Knapp, Anja Flach & Ercan Ayboga. Section 9 “The New Justice System: Consensus Is Key,” in Revolution in Rojava, 2016.
Rojava Information Center. An interview with the women of North and East Syria’s Women’s House, 2020.
Optional:
Hawzhin Azeez. Police abolition and other revolutionary lessons from Rojava, 2020.
Alex Urban. Restorative justice in northeast Syria, 2021.
Andrej Grubacic. Section “Exilic Politics,” pp. 134-137, in Living At the Edges of Capitalism, 2016.