The Geopolitics of Democratic Confederalism in Syria: Geopolitics as the Interplay of Multiple Strategies of Spatialisation

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dc.authoridCemgil, Can/0000-0003-1402-7493
dc.authorwosidCemgil, Can/J-8582-2019
dc.contributor.authorCemgil, Can
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:45:17Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:45:17Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe emerging socio-political entity of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS), lauded and criticised for its proclaimed progressive model, gave rise to by now a sizable literature on its now seven-year-old self-styled stateless, gender-egalitarian, ecological, direct-democratic social experiment that is referred to as democratic confederalism. Its alternative spatiality, however, received relatively less attention. In cases when it did, the dominant spatial organisation of political rule, that is, exclusive, national and territorial statehood became the point of reference. Building on the always contested and never absolute nature of the modern spatiopolitical order, this paper raises the problem of alternative spatial organization of political rule on the basis of the democratic confederalist experiment in Northern Syria. Drawing on a notion of strategies of spatialisation, understood as the practical ways of agents to deal with what is external to them as part of reproducing themselves and their spatiality, it argues that democratic confederalism as the spatialisation strategy of the DFNS constitutes an alternative mode of spatialisation, but its concrete shape is determined as much by its interaction with the spatialisation strategies of others, that is, by geopolitics, as it is by the practices and intentions of those who formulated it.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14650045.2019.1691998
dc.identifier.endpage1074en_US
dc.identifier.issn1465-0045
dc.identifier.issn1557-3028
dc.identifier.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85075479103en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage1046en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2019.1691998
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/7499
dc.identifier.volume26en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000498379000001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofGeopoliticsen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectTerritorial Trapen_US
dc.subjectRojavaen_US
dc.subjectStatehooden_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectSpaceen_US
dc.subjectIraqen_US
dc.titleThe Geopolitics of Democratic Confederalism in Syria: Geopolitics as the Interplay of Multiple Strategies of Spatialisation
dc.typeArticle

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