Browsing by Subject "dialoginen tematisointi"

Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, AANES, was established in 2012. It is de facto independent region and it hopes to operate as a part of unified Syria following principles of democratic confederalism. The aim of this research is to understand and explain AANES using theoretical background of anarchist geography, which is one field of radical political geography. The study navigates the research question of how society could be formed without state and what kind of spatial dimension such kind of post-statist society would have. The key readings on theory are Simon Springer’s (2016) Anachist Roots of Geography – Towards Spatial Emancipation, and Marcelo de Lopez de Souza’s, Richard White’s ja Springer’s (eds.) (2016) Theories of Resistance – Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of Revolt. The study draws on the data collected outside the research area through interviewing 7 research participants. The data is analyzed using deductive dialogical thematization, by arranging the findings into different themes. The findings offer insight into components of post-statist building of society. The thematic components which were salient in the findings are building new spaces; questioning state; accepting the diversity of the region; undoing hierarchies and using anarchist means. The findings demonstrate that anarchist geography is useful tool to understand and study post-statist formation of society of AANES.