Issue 2
THE COMMUNE
“The commune is not nostalgia for the past, or a utopian project to be created from nothing, but the very stuff of our shared humanity. It forms the basis both for social life in general, and the potential for society to re-appropriate its capacity to govern by and for itself. The richness of the topic cannot be encompassed in one issue, but we are proud to present you with our first steps, as we hope to walk together with you all under a banner of liberation with those immortal words, the Commune lives!“
Nik Matheou and the Editorial Collective
Editorial
Nik Matheou and the Editorial Collective
Kurdistan, the Commune, and the Shaping of a Democratic Middle East
Mustafa Karasu
Peace, the Commune, and the State
Mechthild Exo
Call for the Research Commune on the Peace Concept of Abdullah Öcalan
The Many Meanings of the Commune
Mathijs van de Sande and Gaard Kets
The Commune: Founding Unit of Democratic Society
Abdullah Öcalan
We All Have a Story to Tell
Shahrzad Arshadi
Call for the Long Histories of Democratic Civilization Research Commune
The Commune as an Economic Form
Bengi Akbulut
Kitchen Experiments: An Invitation to the Democratic Foodways Commune
Targol Mesbah
Call for the Democratic Foodways Research Commune
Multinaturalist Ecologies and Commons: Between Latin America and the Middle East
Ana Paula Morel
Munduruku Wakoborũn Women in the Struggle: Self-Defense, Resistance, and Territorial Protection
Munduruku Wakoborũn
Call for the Democratic Confederalism and Prefiguration Research Commune
Book Review: Kurdish Women’s Stories
Salima Tasdemir and Pat Huff
Emer(gentes)
Mona Caron
