Today, looking at the Middle East and assessing the Kurds ascending, through and beyond the dust and smoke of war, new forms of politics and democracy are being shaped in social practices and by social experimentation. Notable expressions of these practices and experiments are the people’s councils that have been established in various places in the Kurdistan region, such as in Derik (in Syria) and Diyarbakir (in Turkey). Through these councils people are taking greater responsibility for and control of their daily lives and the places where they live. Those involved indicate that these councils are not simply to be considered as local initiatives, but also contribute to a larger project or idea and way of thinking about and doing politics, a politics of connectivity of places and people. The overall aim of this paper is to explore and explain how the Kurdish movement is developing new ways of thinking and doing politics. We will discuss this in connection to literature on performative practices, which offers an analytical approach for the study and an understanding of social experimentation. Acknowledging the complexities and ambivalences immanent to this experiments, this paper will put forward that the social practices and social experimentation initiated by the Kurdish movement is a way in which the Kurds are ascending in the era of a crisis of the nation-state, re-imagining democracy and developing citizenship rights. This paper will be based on field work, interviews, and secondary sources.