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Bezig met laden... Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS (2022)door Janet Biehl
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I was disappointed in its lack of complexity and the artwork is inspired. Individual interviewees were hard to differentiate, for example. Despite being in the form of a comic, I think more nuance would be possible and benefit the story. I do like the first person perspective, and ideologically support the revolution in Rojava, so it's great to see more work about the subject. ( ) A weird mix of history and hagiography that is simultaneously interesting and off-putting. I like finding out about the daily life of Kurds fighting off ISIS and Turkish incursions in Syria, but it's all in service to the author's agenda of promoting and polishing the political philosophies of some dead dude named Murray Bookchin with whom she had some weird professional and personal relationship that is not fully fleshed out in this book but casts a pall over everything. Every time his name pops up it is a distraction along the lines of Gretchen Wieners trying to make "fetch" happen. Read it for the profiles of courageous people struggling for freedom in a volatile situation and try to ignore how important the resulting communes and committee structures are to the academic reputations of a couple of white folks from Vermont. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society in the Middle East. Persecuted for much of the 20th century, they dared to try to overcome social fragmentation by affirming social solidarity among all the region's ethnic and religious peoples. As Syria plunged into civil war, the Kurds and their Arab and Assyrian allies established a self-governing polity that was not only multiethnic but democratic. And women were not only permitted but encouraged to participate in all social roles alongside men, including political and military roles. To implement these goals, Rojava wanted to live in peace with its neighbors. Instead, it soon faced invasion by ISIS, a force that was in every way its opposite. ISIS attacked its neighbors in Iraq and Syria, imposing theocratic, tyrannical, femicidal rule on them. Those who might have resisted fled in terror. But when ISIS attacked the mostly Kurdish city of Kobane and overran much of it, the YPG and YPJ, or people's militias, declined to flee. Instead they resisted, and several countries, seeing their valiant resistance, formed an international coalition to assist them militarily. While the YPG and YPJ fought on the ground, the coalition coordinated airstrikes with them. They liberated village after village and in March 2019 captured ISIS's last territory in Syria. Around that time, two UK-based filmmakers invited the author to spend a month in Rojava making a film. She accepted, and arrived to explore the society and interview people. During that month, she explored how the revolution had progressed and especially the effects of the war on the society. She found that the war had reinforced social solidarity and welded together the multiethnic, gender-liberated society. As one man in Kobane told her, "Our blood got mixed." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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