PACO Special Issue 18(2) 2025: Exploring the Kurdish Movement

The Partecipazione e Conflitto (PACO) special issue 18(2) 2025, “Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics and Theoretical Perspectives,” is now available.
See the official PACO issue page for the full table of contents.

Published on 15 July 2025, the volume advances a three‑level framework and includes contributions focused on:

• historically embedded repertoires of state coercion and colonial governance,
• the movement’s evolving ideological corpus (Democratic Modernity and Jineolojî),
• micro‑level processes of mobilisation, activist identity formation, and internal organisation.

Two cross‑cutting themes structure the issue: power (coercive sovereignty, revolutionary decentralisation, and intra‑movement organisation) and history (as a state instrument of closure and a movement resource for alternative futures).

The introduction by Grasso and Novellis outlines this framework and sketches future research directions on post‑insurgency transitions, DDR and autonomy design, and post‑statist political theory.

Reference (introduction)

Grasso, D., & Novellis, A. (2025). Introduction - Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics and Theoretical Perspectives. PACO, 18(2), 384‑394.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v18i2p384