Democratic Modernity: Towards a Sociology of Freedom, Issue No. 1
The journal of the Academy of Social Science, Democratic Modernity, is a project to rethink social science as a means of human emancipation rather than simply an academic field of study. Its motto, “Towards a Sociology of Freedom,” is strongly influenced by all struggles for freedom and equality, including Abdullah Öcalan’s paradigm of Democratic Civilization, the concept of democratic modernity, the revolutionary experience of Rojava, and the Kurdish women’s freedom movement.
The journal critiques capitalism, hierarchical institutions, and conventional disciplinary boundaries, advocating instead for forms of social organization grounded in communal life, dignity, ecological awareness, and democratic participation. It also combines essays on political theory, sociology, art, food systems, jineolojî, knowledge, and community organizing. The journal will also be the address where the fruit of research communes such as Long Histories of Democratic Civilization, Democratic Foodways, Peace and Democratic Confederalism and others are shared. Contributors include scholars, activists, and political thinkers, culminating in being an interdisciplinary intellectual project: an attempt to develop a “unified social science” that can support collective resistance, alternative forms of governance, and the practical imagination of a freer society.
To learn more about the Academy of Social Science visit their website HERE.
Issue No. 1 presents the journal as both an intervention in contemporary critical discourse and, more ambitiously, as a contribution to a radical reconceptualization of social science. It envisions social science as a vehicle for human emancipation—the “sociology of freedom”—capable of challenging existing systems and contributing to building of democratic society.
Table of Contents:
Editorial - Patrick Huff and the Editorial Collective
Defending Society Is Defending Life - Havin Guneser
Art Under Capitalism - Benedetta Argentieri
Food and Social Nature: Foundation for Democratic Modernity - Harriet Friedmann
Unidisciplinarity & the Promise of a Sociology of Freedom - Andrej Grubačić
Women, Knowledge, Life, Freedom - Laura Fantone
Öcalan as Thinker: On the Unity of Theory and Practice as Form of Writing - David Graeber
Truth - John Holloway
On Democratic Modernity; Or, To Hope in the Aftermath - Nik Matheou
Democratic Confederalism: A Non-state Political Governance - Abdullah Öcalan
A Different Kind of Academy - Reimar Heider
Imagining Freedom in the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement - Nazan Üstündağ
Peoples in Movement Organize Through Community and Use Values - Raúl Zibechi
Silent Scream - Aslı Filiz
Join the Movement for Democratic Modernity! - The Academy of Social Science
204 pages containing 14 full-color, and 40 black & white images.
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