Urban Land: Private, Public or Community Ownership?

A panel discussion titled Urban Land: Private, Public or Community Ownership?  was held in Montreal on November 12, 2015. Presented by Planners Network – Montreal chapter, Geography Undergraduate Student Society (GUSS), Urban Planning Association (UPA) and the Geography Graduates (Geograds). The discussion offers a very valuable record of an ongoing discussion on the present and future of cities […]

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February 2, 2016
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Greece, when the social movements are all that is left

  By Theodoros Karyotis. Originally published on OpenDemocracy. – Skyrocketing abstention, social demobilisation and an impending wave of harsh austerity measures call for critical reflection after Syriza’s victory. There is nothing to celebrate, really. Maybe the European leftists who arrived in Athens to support Tsipras are justified to celebrate, since they have a vision of […]

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September 30, 2015
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3rd annual European Social Ecology conference

  Dan Chodorkoff, from the Institute of Social Ecology (ISE) in Vermont, reports from the last conference of TRISE: I recently returned from Patras, Greece where I represented the ISE at the third annual conference of TRISE, the Transnational Institute for Social Ecology. The conference drew participants from 13 countries and four continents for four […]

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September 28, 2015
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Janet Biehl: The Revolutionary Moment

Written by Janet Biehl in July 2015, originally published on her blog.   Today Rojava has become the epicenter of popular desires for radical democratic change. Like Paris in 1789, St. Petersburg in 1905 and 1917, and Barcelona in 1936-37, it crystallizes an era’s aspirations for social and political revolution. The last book that Murray […]

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August 7, 2015
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How TRISE was started

  When the United Nations declared at the turn of this century that for the first time in human history the majority of people now live in cities and towns and that urbanization seems irreversible, the relevance of social ecology became even more evident. Our challenge is to recognize that cities must become ecological cities, […]

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June 12, 2015
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What is TRISE?

The Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) is a transnational network of activists, scholars and researchers founded in Greece in 2013. TRISE has an office in central Athens and currently holds more than 50 members mainly situated in different parts of Europe. TRISE sees itself as part of the communalist tradition and aims to propagate […]

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June 11, 2015
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First mission statement – 2013

This is the first mission statement of TRISE. It was was adopted at the first conference in 2013 and then slightly modified after the second one in 2014. A new mission statement has been adopted in 2021.   TRISE mission statement – Toward Democratic and Ecological Cities At the United Nations Rio + 20 world summit that […]

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February 11, 2015
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What kind of nation state for the 21st century?

  The form of political organization now known as the nation-state is a relatively recent invention in Western societies. This invention, the dominant form in the West, has been imposed on most of the world’s population, throughout the twentieth century, notwithstanding that it is based on a number of ideas and social attitudes totally alien […]

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February 10, 2015
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Joint statement of the academic delegation to Rojava

Report from a recent delegation in Rojava, with the participation of Trise members Janet Biehl and Eirik Eiglad. Originally published at ROAR magazine.   Last December, an international delegation of scholars visited Rojava to learn about the revolution, gender liberation and democratic self-government. The battle over Kobani, which began in the summer of 2014, has […]

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February 10, 2015
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