Post-capitalist marketization in Northern Kurdistan

Turker, Kaner Atakan

doi:10.1080/03085147.2022.1987744

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“…8. For research on projects on local economies, see Turker (2022a); for research on projects related to cultural production, see Hamelink (2016); Scalbert-Yücel (2017); Turker (2022b); see also Gambetti (2008); Öztürk (2013). 9.…”

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“…Influenced by the late social ecologist Bookchin and his discussions on ‘libertarian municipalism’ and ‘communalism’, the leader of the Kurdish Movement, Abdullah Öcalan, developed the model of ‘Democratic Autonomy’, which seeks self‐governance and autonomy in Northern Kurdistan through assemblies and councils at each scale, from villages and neighbourhoods to the regional level. The economic aspect of Democratic Autonomy — which is of particular interest for this article — rejects state‐led capitalist expansion, takes the communal modes of economic organization and practice as its basis, and promotes cooperatives across the region (Aslan, 2016; Egret and Anderson, 2016; Madra, 2016; TATORT Kurdistan, 2013; Turker, 2022a).…”

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Theorizing Power in Community Economies: A Women's Cooperative in Northern Kurdistan

Turker¹

2023

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Under the Democratic Autonomy project, Turkey's Kurdish Movement has pursued self‐governance since the mid‐2000s and promoted cooperatives and communal modes of production across Northern Kurdistan. Drawing upon the engagement of diverse and community economies studies with assemblage thinking, this article utilizes assemblage thinking to expand our understanding of power dynamics in community economies, and to reveal the power‐led processes involved in building and maintaining community economies. The article focuses on the case of a women's cooperative spearheaded by the Kurdish Movement, which managed to circumvent state oppression and stay in business, despite the turmoil that erupted in Northern Kurdistan after the collapse of peace negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurdish Movement in 2015.

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Section: The Kurdistani Municipalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%