Living Utopia? : Stories from Rojava

Christopher Wimmer

ISBN 10: 9004746765 / ISBN 13: 9789004746763

Published by Brill Dez 2025, 2025

About this Item

Neuware - The great achievement of this excellently researched and readable book is to provide a nuanced and empathetic view of the concrete situation in the Kurdish-dominated regions of North and East Syria, known as Rojava. For that, Christopher Wimmer has chosen a form of writing that oscillates between reportage, political analysis, and ethnographic investigation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Living Utopia? : Stories from Rojava
• Publisher: Brill Dez 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004746765
• ISBN 13: 9789004746763
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 14D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 445 grams

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Synopsis

For social movements around the world, Rojava embodies the real possibility of a better society: the revolution began there in 2012. In the Kurdish-dominated regions, an autonomous self-administration has been established based on the values of grassroots democracy, gender equality and ecology. The “Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria” now controls about a third of Syria’s territory. It unites different ethnicities, religions and languages under its umbrella. A decade later, Christopher Wimmer examines the aspirations and reality of the “revolutionary society” from a critical perspective. Based on numerous interviews with people from all sectors of society – administration, education, military, medicine, etc. – in a mixture of reportage and analysis, he creates a polyphonic picture of the everyday life, hopes, and problems of the people on the ground.

About the Author

Christopher Wimmer, Dr., is sociologist and author. From 2023-2024 he worked as a research assistant at HU Berlin, now at the “IBI - Institut für Bildung in der Informationsgesellschaft“ (Institute for Education in the Information Society). He has published several monographs and articles on social inequality, poverty research and marginalized groups, including Exclusions and Marginalisation In: Global Handbook of Inequality (Springer, 2024), Die Marginalisierten. (Über-)Leben zwischen Mangel und Notwendigkeit (Beltz, 2024) and Global Inequality. Rethinking Socoiolgy in the 21st Century (with Tobias Rieder) (Brill, 2025).