We at TRISE are glad to announce that our book, containing the proceedings from our 2017 conference, is finally out. It is titled “Social Ecology and the Right to the City: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities” and has been edited by Federico Venturini, Emet Degirmenci, and Inés Morales. Description of the book: Cities today […]
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Written by Dr Clemens Hoffmann, lecturer in International Politics, University of Stirling, Scotland. The present text is the speech of Dr Hoffmann at Direct Democracy Festival, held on 06/09/18 in Thessaloniki. Thanks for the invite, it is great to be part of something I had always dreamt of in a way doing myself but the […]
Read More The Social Dimension of Energy Transition
Written by Yavor Tarinski / Image source: conservationmagazine.org The notion that man must dominate nature emerges directly from the domination of man by man[1] Murray Bookchin Nowadays the need to act against the ongoing environmental degradation seems more than evident. From marginal activist groups to governments of the strongest countries on the planet, […]
Read More Preventing Ecological Catastrophe Means Abolishing Hierarchy and Domination
TRISE is co-organizing an event on Social Ecology and the Right to the City in Sofia, Bulgaria, together with the local free social space Fabrika Avtonomia. Keynote speaker will be Dimitrios Roussopoulos – long-time political activist, writer, editor, publisher, community organizer and public speaker. Some of the subjects he will be introducing are the […]
Read More An event on Social Ecology in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria
This report was provided by the organizers of the 2nd International Meeting on Social Ecology On the weekend of the 28th of October 2017, the 2nd International Meeting on Social Ecology was held in the occupied school of La Karmela, Bilbao, Euskal Herria (Basque Country). They were an opportunity to pay tribute to the struggles […]
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Written by Yavor Tarinski Introduction Life on this planet, as we know it, is a result of fragile environmental conditions that the contemporary predominant neoliberal system has already began to alter. Capitalism and its doctrine of unlimited economic growth seems to completely neglect this dependency and continues to violently exploit nature for the benefit of […]
Read More Commons, Social Ecology and the Transcending of Capitalism
A group of activists for social ecology from Spain, France, Catalunya and Bask Country are organizing a second international meeting in Bilbao, Spain, this year, after having organized a first one in Lyon last year. Below you find the program and invitation in English. Also as a flyer pdf here.. For registration and further […]
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Article by Brian Morris, written in 2009 and included in “Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism: A Brian Morris Reader” (2015, PM Press). Brian Morris is one of of the keynote speakers at our upcoming conference in Thessaloniki. In this article from 2009 he gives his own perspective on the political legacy of Murray Bookchin and its stance […]
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We here republish an article by Damian White originally published in Jacobin Magazine in July 2016. Murray Bookchin’s New Life Whatever their limits, Murray Bookchin’s ideas should be studied by today’s left. – Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would place ecology and the creative human subject at the […]
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TRISE is at place at the World Social Forum in Montreal 9th -14th August! Together with our close comrades Black Rose Books and the Institute for Social Ecology we help to organize a whole set of workshops from the 10th -13th (Wednesday to Saturday). Below you find a list of links to the different workshops. A poster, […]
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