Self-Determination Struggles

A thorough contemporary discussion of the meaning and theory of self-determination.
Self-determination is a concept as indispensable as it is contentious. This volume examines the theory and meaning of self-determination today through an exploration of the work of figures such as Rosa Luxembourg, Frantz Fanon, and Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdish Freedom Movement. Leaving no stone unturned, Self-Determination Struggles not only includes radical political movements and thinkers, but makes them the core of its investigations, presenting them in granular, revealing detail rare to find elsewhere.

Thomas Jeffrey Miley is a lecturer of political sociology at the University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Self-Determination and the Nation
- Chapter 1: The Nation as Hegemonic Project
- Chapter 2: Nationalist Ideology and the State - Co-authored with Dr. Enric Martínez-Herrera
- Chapter 3: Towards a New Internationalism
- Chapter 4: Rosa Luxemburg’s Living Legacy
- Chapter 5: 1917 on the Brain
- Chapter 6: Anticolonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Critiques and Creative Appropriations of Self-Determination: From Fanon to Öcalan
- Part Two: Self-Determination and Democracy
- Chapter 7: Representative Democracy and the Democratic Confederal Project: Reflections on the Transformation of the Kurdish Movement in Turkey - Co-authored with Luqman Guldive
- Chapter 8: Reflections on Revolution, the Spiral of Violence, and the Legitimacy of Self-Defense
- Chapter 9: Revolutionary Consciousness beyond Militant Secularism
- Chapter 10: Murray Bookchin and Democratic Theory