Moving Beyond the Right to the City: Urban Commoning in Greece

  Written by Theodoros Karyotis   The urban space is the epicentre of social antagonism. At any historical moment, it represents a crystallisation of power relations. While political and economic powers incessantly reform it to better isolate, control and exploit its inhabitants, the latter inevitably seek empowerment through collective mobilisation. After all, this is the […]

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August 27, 2020
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Autonomy: The Legacy of Ideal

  Written by Nikos Vrantsis. What follows is a review of Yavor Tarinski’s book Short Introduction of the Political Legacy of Castoriadis (Athens: Aftoleksi, 2020). Cornelius Castoriadis is considered one of the crucial voices of the twentieth century. However, the academic community surrounds his work, with the kind of respect reserved for thinkers considered obsolete: […]

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June 17, 2020
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It’s Time to Democratize the Crisis: Join a Global Community of Countries Mobilizing to Do Just That

Written by Jonathan Michael Feldman. Originally published on www.globalteachin.com   The communes of the next revolution…will trust the free organization of food supply and production to free groups of workers—which will federate with like groups in other cities and villages not through the medium of a communal parliament but directly, to accomplish their aim.” P. […]

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May 29, 2020
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Is the Right to the City a Right or a Revolution?

  Written by Magali Fricaudet   From a catastrophist point of view, we could probably say that the unprecedented rate of urbanization that the world is currently experiencing is a realization of the more destructive tendencies of capitalism, where life is at serious stake. Indeed, urbanization seems to have no end, as the ideology of […]

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May 25, 2020
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Corona-crisis affects small Greek farmers who counterstrike with a nationwide social media campaign to unite producers & consumers on local level!

  Written by TRISE member Jenny Gkiougki, originally published on Interface journal here. Greece is experiencing low corona-related mortality rates, but the measures imposed came early and were as harsh as in other, more stricken countries, posing severe strain to a society and an economy in shambles due to the ongoing economic crisis. In an […]

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May 19, 2020
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Mutual aid in times of confinement in Saint-Denis, testimony and perspectives for a social ecology in a popular neighbourhood

  Written by The Bird of Passage, with the help of  TRISE member Theo Rouhette Saint-Denis, a working class city situated in the northern periphery of Paris, is facing the Covid-19 epidemic head-on, both in terms of the number of victims and the consequences of the confinement implemented throughout France on 17 March. It is […]

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May 12, 2020
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Cities of Tomorrow

  Written by TRISE member Mike Small. Originally published in Bella Caledonia   Transforming our cities could be the pathway to a Post-Covid world Sorry to bring doom to the doom but the sequence is this: public health disaster, shambolic elite failure, peak coronavirus, then the long reveal of the consequences. There’s bound to be […]

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May 11, 2020
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Social movements’ powerlessness at the time of covid-19: A Personal Account

  Written by TRISE member Federico Venturini This is a story about my experience as activist-researcher during the covid-19 crisis in Udine, a small city in the North-East of Italy (1). This is not a happy story of actions and results but a narrative of frustration and impotence feelings. At the end of February Italy […]

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April 30, 2020
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A Critique of The Limits of Growth from a Social Ecology Perspective

  Written by Emet Değirmenci Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication – Leonardo da Vinci The Limits to Growth was commissioned by the Club of Rome and published in 1972. The cautionary message of the report (Meadows et al., 1972) was intended to signal the need for reforms that would ensure the survival of […]

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April 12, 2020
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The Future of Social Ecology in Belgium

Written by Rafa Grinfeld While the climate and ecology movement in Belgium has been growing during the past two years, certainly amongst young people, we must ask ourselves what the role of social ecology in this has been in the past and can be in the future. Social ecology is rapidly becoming more known in […]

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March 12, 2020
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