I’m always keen to connect with colleagues working on these themes, so please reach out if you’ll be in Canterbury or if our interests overlap. 🌍📚

Beyond this paper, my broader research engages with several intersecting areas: early warning systems, rebel governance and post-conflict political orders, the trajectories of rebel-to-party transitions, and the politics of the Kurdish question and Sri Lanka.

Apologies, the correct link is: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/pa...

We’re very grateful to the authors for their contributions and collaboration.
And we hope this issue adds something of value to ongoing debates in Kurdish studies, Middle Eastern politics, and radical political thought.
All pieces are fully open access: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/pa...

📌 Davide Grasso on Öcalan & Bookchin, hierarchy and communalism
📌 Bernardo Paci on democratic confederalism and historical ontology
📌 Federica Giardini on transfeminist encounters with Kurdish thought
📌 Massoud Sharifi on Kurdish activism—streets, ballots, bullets

The articles include:

📌 Mauro Primavera on Ba'thist approaches to the Kurds in Syria
📌 Angelika Pobedonostseva & Siarhei Bohdan on Arab–Kurdish Cold War alliances
📌 Tuncer Beyribey on AKP counter-terrorism discourse post-2015

It opens with our Introduction, where we reflect on power, ideology, and strategy in the Kurdish movement across time and space. We hope it offers a useful framework to think about Kurdish struggles in their plurality.

The issue was co-edited by myself and Davide Grasso (@GrassoDavide), and brings together a wide range of perspectives on Kurdish politics—from state repression to grassroots democracy, from Cold War alliances to radical theory and gender politics.

Welcome: Leo Bauer, Imrana Alhaji Buba, @edoardocorradi.bsky.social , @vbouemardinocheau.bsky.social l, Promise Frank Ejiofar, @fortierjacob.bsky.social , Nguyen T Ha, @kyawhsanhlaing.com , Dr Camille Laville, Tony Neil, @andreanovellis.bsky.social , Dr Hogr O Tarkhani, Favell Williamlich / end

📅 Deadline: 25 May 2025
📍 SISP Annual Conference, Naples, 4–6 Sept
🖊️ Submit here: sisp.it/en/conferenc...
👥 Chairs: Nicola degli Esposti (Padua) Andrea Novellis (Naples L’Orientale)

Please share with colleagues working on Middle East politics, conflict, or identity

🔹 Panel 13.6 — Beyond Sectarianism: Regional Politics and Conflict Realignments in the Middle East
sisp.it/convegno2025...
For two decades, Sunni–Shia rivalry structured most analyses of Middle East conflicts.
But this frame does not explain current dynamics

📅 Deadline: 25 May 2025
📍 SISP Annual Conference, Naples, 4–6 Sept
🖊️ Submit here: sisp.it/en/conferenc...
👥 Chairs: Nicola degli Esposti (Padua) Andrea Novellis (Naples L’Orientale)

Please share with colleagues working on Middle East politics, conflict, or identity

🔹 Panel 13.6 — Beyond Sectarianism: Regional Politics and Conflict Realignments in the Middle East
sisp.it/convegno2025...
For two decades, Sunni–Shia rivalry structured most analyses of Middle East conflicts.
But this frame does not explain current dynamics

--> A workshop organized by: University of Naples - L'Orientale, Institute for South Asian Studies - National University of Singapore, Open University of Sri Lanka

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📅 Abstracts due: 30 April
🌍 In-person & online options
📩 Info: colomboews@gmail.com

Cfp: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#SriLanka #SouthAsia #SoutheastAsia #PoliticalRisk #ConflictPrevention #EarlyWarning

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--> A workshop organized by: University of Naples - L'Orientale, Institute for South Asian Studies - National University of Singapore, Open University of Sri Lanka

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📅 Abstracts due: 30 April
🌍 In-person & online options
📩 Info: colomboews@gmail.com

Cfp: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#SriLanka #SouthAsia #SoutheastAsia #PoliticalRisk #ConflictPrevention #EarlyWarning

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