Obstacles to Insurrection: Militarised Border Crossings Hindering the Rojava Liberation Struggle

The aim of this paper is to broaden our understanding of multidimensional socio-spatial relations as they apply to anti-systemic insurrectionary movements. As an illustrative case I discuss the Rojava insurrectionary movement, particularly the difficulties it faces in maintaining its solvency as a f...

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Published in:Anarchist studies 2019-09, Vol.27 (2), p.77-102
Main Author: Potiker, Spencer Louis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accumulation
Analysis
Anarchism
Border security
Boundaries
Capital formation
Colonies & territories
Counterinsurgency
Demographic aspects
Economic aspects
Geopolitics
History
Infrastructure
Insurrectionists
Kurdish people
Logistics
Marxism
Military aspects
National liberation movements
Neoliberalism
Political aspects
Power
Rebellion
Regional government
Social sciences
Solvency
State power
Systems analysis
Violence
World system theory
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Summary:The aim of this paper is to broaden our understanding of multidimensional socio-spatial relations as they apply to anti-systemic insurrectionary movements. As an illustrative case I discuss the Rojava insurrectionary movement, particularly the difficulties it faces in maintaining its solvency as a free territory due to multiple mechanisms of state power and capital accumulation in the world-system. I discuss where anarchist theory in the social sciences has been adequate and where it has come up short in understanding the potentialities of anarchist insurrectionary movements. I do this by paying particular attention to the sociohistorical and sociospatial realities in Rojava as it applies to territory, place, scale, and networks. In conclusion I call for a synthesis of anarchist theorisation with the world-systems perspective.
ISSN:0967-3393