Alternatives to the Established Social Sciences

We publish Ann-Kristin Kowarsch’s contribution to the conference “Challenging Capitalist Modernity—Alternative Concepts and the Kurdish Quest” which took place in Hamburg, Germany, 3-5 February 2012. The paper raises critiques for the role, methodology and institutions of modern social science and presents the theory and practice of Jineolojî and Women’s academies in Kurdistan. Since the paper…

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For a new internationalism of women: Democratic World Women’s Confederalism

Democratic world women’s confederalism represents a way of building a political system of world-women, the primary aim of which is to find solutions to all issues affecting women by collectively strengthening their power of thought, determination and action The Kurdish women’s liberation movement presented its proposal for a democratic confederalism of women for the first…

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