Pan-African Social Ecology: A conversation with Dr Modibo Kadalie

A dialogue between pan-African social ecologist Dr. Modibo Kadalie and The Final Straw Radio (TFSR) on the occasion of his books Pan-African Social Ecology published by On Our Own Authority!) as well as Internationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Struggle of Social Classes (published by One Quest Press). A version of Dr. Kadalie’s conversation with Andrew Zonneveld […]

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March 10, 2026
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Mobilizing Social Ecology Podcast #1: A Talk with Eleanor Finley

  Mobilizing Social Ecology is a podcast of the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (trise.net). It explores ecological and democratic transformations for collective liberation and life-sustaining worlds. In this episode our guest is Eleanor Finley, a public anthropologist, social ecology educator and organizer, who has been directly engaged with radical democracy movements for over 15 […]

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October 28, 2025
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WTF Is Social Ecology?

Article: Usufruct Collective. Illustration: Bella Harter. Cross-posted from DOPE magazine. From climate change, to deforestation, to destruction of biodiversity and habitats, to ocean acidification, to air, water and soil pollution, and beyond: the world is undergoing a colossal ecological crisis. If business as usual continues without sufficient opposition and alternatives, there will be escalating disasters. […]

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April 7, 2025
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The Unique Contribution of Murray Bookchin to Political Thought

Written by Jean-François Filion The life of the Social Ecologist, Murray Bookchin, was exemplary. His political and theoretical commitment is a model of depth and courage. Regardless of the fate the future holds for his doctrine, regardless of the memory of the intellectual disputes in which he participated, Murray Bookchin will remain a major reference […]

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December 1, 2024
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Blackness, Anarchism, and Social Ecology

On 13 October 2018, prolific author and activist Modibo Kadalie participated in a public discussion with William C. Anderson, co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press, 2018). This community conversation occurred at the third annual Atlanta Radical Book Fair, which was held at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Cublaure and History. […]

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November 16, 2024
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The Social Ecology of Ruins

Written by Theo Rouhette The proliferation of decayed factories, military installations, rural villages or transportation networks is often attributed to the force of creative destruction under capitalism, the endogenous process that ‘incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one’ (Schumpeter, 1942). Marxist thinkers focused on the […]

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June 30, 2024
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TRISE 2024 Conference: Call for Contributions

The Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) is glad to announce its next conference on 25th – 27th October 2024 in Athens, Greece! Title: The Politics of Social Ecology: From Theory to Praxis *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: End of June, 2024 *** Context Contemporary crises are making the struggle against capitalist modernity and its associated forms […]

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March 27, 2024
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Found in Translation: Murray Bookchin’s Social Ecology in Turkey

Written by Stephen Hunt 1980s-1990s In the present day, many political activists in Turkey are familiar with Murray Bookchin’s ideas, especially in the Kurdish-majority region of the South East. When Abdullah Öcalan adopted and adapted Bookchin’s political theory, he significantly amplified his influence. Commentators such as Carne Ross have spoken of the “remarkable” nature of […]

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February 16, 2024
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The Modern Crisis – Book Review

Federico Venturini reviews Bookchin’s The Modern Crisis (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2022.). Originally published in The AAG Review of Books. A Republishing Endeavor1 The latest edition of The Modern Crisis, published in 2022, is part of an ongoing effort to amplify the work of Murray Bookchin, the founder of social ecology and the political project […]

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January 30, 2024
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An interview with Murray Bookchin (Burlington 20-7-1994)

-Despite the increasing disillusion that people in western countries have with professional politicians, we see that to a large extent instead of seeking to create a new liberatory project they turn to charismatic but demagogic “leaders” such as Berlusconi in Italy. Lepen in France, Zirinofski in Russia and Pero in the U.S.A..What do you think […]

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December 26, 2023
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