The journal of the Academy of Social Science, Democratic Modernity, is a project to rethink social science as a means of human emancipation rather than simply an academic field of study. Its motto, “Towards a Sociology of Freedom,” is strongly influenced by all struggles for freedom and equality, including Abdullah Öcalan’s paradigm of Democratic Civilization, the concept of democratic modernity, the revolutionary experience of Rojava, and the Kurdish women’s freedom movement.
The journal critiques capitalism, hierarchical institutions, and conventional disciplinary boundaries, advocating instead for forms of social organization grounded in communal life, dignity, ecological awareness, and democratic participation.
The journal combines essays on political theory, sociology, art, food systems, jineolojî, knowledge, and community organizing. The journal will also be the address where the fruit of research communes such as Long Histories of Democratic Civilization, Democratic Foodways, Peace and Democratic Confederalism and others are shared. Contributors include scholars, activists, and political thinkers, culminating in being an interdisciplinary intellectual project: an attempt to develop a “unified social science” that can support collective resistance, alternative forms of governance, and the practical imagination of a freer society.
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