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 […]
Read More 3rd annual European Social Ecology conferenceWritten 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 […]
Read More Janet Biehl: The Revolutionary MomentHere the talk that TRISE member Dimitri Roussopoluos recently gave at TEDxPatras on the subject of The Right to the City.
Read More The Right to the City by Dimitri Roussopoulos at TEDxPatrasWhen 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, […]
Read More How TRISE was started
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 […]
Read More What is TRISE?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 […]
Read More First mission statement – 2013
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 […]
Read More What kind of nation state for the 21st century?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 […]
Read More Joint statement of the academic delegation to RojavaDimitri Roussopoulos asks us, in this keynote speech given in Oslo, September 27, 2014 at the “Ecological Challenges” conference, to consider the historical record of the State management to protect the natural environment from being damaged. He goes on to discuss political and social ecology and the pivotal role of building genuine and democratic […]
Read More The Politics of Ecology and the Ecology of Politics