Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities examines Kurdish ecological politics and its modeling of communalism and environmental justice, which offer important insights into democratic renewal and women's liberation for the West.

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

Chapter 2: Social Ecology in Öcalan's Thinking

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

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

Part II: Positive Initiatives for Ecological Change

Chapter 5: Ecology Structures of the Kurdish Freedom Movement

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

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

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

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

Part III: Social Movements and Environmental Activism

Chapter 11: Environmental Activism in Rojhelat: Emergence and Objectives

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

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

Chapter 14: The Kurdish Ecology Movement and Human Rights

Chapter 15: The Internationalist Project to Make Rojava Green Again

Part IV: Nature Protection and Kurdish Alevism

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

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

Part V: Conflict and Environmental Destruction

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

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

Part VI: Conclusions

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

Chapter 21: Concluding Reflections on the Kurdish Ecology Initiatives