Stephen E. Hunt is academic skills coordinator for the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of the West of England.

Introduction: Ecology in the Kurdish Paradigm

Part I: Theory

Chapter 1: The Value of Social Ecology in the Struggles to Come

Federico Venturini

Chapter 2: Social Ecology in Öcalan's Thinking

Cihad Hammy

Chapter 3: Ecological Self-Governmentality in Kurdish Space at a Time of Neoliberal Authoritarianism

Engin Sustam

Chapter 4: Radical or Reactionary Tomatoes? Organizing against the Toxic Legacy of Capital's Environmentalism

Nicholas Hildyard

Part II: Positive Initiatives for Ecological Change

Chapter 5: Ecology Structures of the Kurdish Freedom Movement

Ercan Ayböa

Chapter 6: An Interview with HDP Ecology Commission Co-Spokesperson, Menek¿e Kizildere.

Chapter 7: Greening and Feeding the City: The Difficult Path to the Implementation of Political Ecology in Diyarbak¿r/Amed, 2015-2017

Clémence Scalbert-Yücel

Chapter 8: Regenerating Kurdish Ecologies Through Food Sovereignty, Agroecology, and Economies of Care

Michel P. Pimbert

Chapter 9: Free Life Together: Jinwar, the Women's Eco-village

Fabiana Cioni and Domenico Patassini

Chapter 10: Women's Subjectivity and the Ecological and Communal Economy

Azize Aslan; translated from Spanish by Karen Tiedtke

Part III: Social Movements and Environmental Activism

Chapter 11: Environmental Activism in Rojhelat: Emergence and Objectives

Allan Hassaniyan

Chapter 12: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and Gezi: Strategic Reluctance and Tactical Ambiguities

Kumru Toktamis and Isabel David

Chapter 13: Hasankeyf, the Il¿su Dam, and the Kurdish Movement in Turkey

Laurent Dissard

Chapter 14: The Kurdish Ecology Movement and Human Rights

Marlene A. Payya Almonte and Thomas James Phillips

Chapter 15: The Internationalist Project to Make Rojava Green Again

Stephen E. Hunt

Part IV: Nature Protection and Kurdish Alevism

Chapter 16: Dersim as a Sacred Land: Contemporary Kurdish Alevi Ethno-Politics and Environmental Struggle

Ahmet Kerim Gültekin

Chapter 17: The Philosophy of Ecology and Rêya Heqî: Religion, Nature, and Femininity

Dilsa Deniz

Part V: Conflict and Environmental Destruction

Chapter 18: Forest fires in Dersim and ¿¿rnak: Conflict and Environmental Destruction

Pinar Dinc

Chapter 19: Breaking the Kill Chain: Exposing to Challenge British State and International Corporate Complicity in Turkey's Killer Drone Industry

Ceri Gibbons

Part VI: Conclusions

Chapter 20: "To Plant the Tree of Tomorrow": Seeding and Spiraling Ecologically Aware Democratic Autonomy Beyond the Kurdish Freedom Movement

Stephen E. Hunt

Chapter 21: Concluding Reflections on the Kurdish Ecology Initiatives

Stephen E. Hunt