Azize Aslan is a Kurdish sociologist, activist, and author who focuses on anti-capitalist economics, democratic autonomy, and feminist social theory. Her work combines scientific analysis with political practice and is closely linked to the experiences of the Kurdish movement in northern and eastern Syria (Rojava). At the heart of her thinking is the question of how an emancipatory society can be organized beyond the nation-state and the capitalist economic order.

Azize Aslan understands the democratization of the economy as a prerequisite for any liberating practice. In her work, she emphasizes that ecological sustainability, collective self-management, and the visibility of care and reproductive work are inextricably linked. She places care work, which is often invisible or devalued in capitalism, at the center of a social and ecological economy. In doing so, she links feminist theory with concrete projects such as cooperatives and grassroots democratic structures.

In her research and political work, Azize Aslan builds bridges between Kurdish, Zapatista, and other global emancipatory movements. She understands the struggle against patriarchal and capitalist structures as a transnational project and positions the Kurdish women’s movement as an important actor in the global struggle for social justice, ecological responsibility, and democratic self-determination.