Several new books of interest to social ecologists are out this month:
: The Life of Murray Bookchin
by Janet Biehl, from Oxford University Press
The first-ever biography of Murray Bookchin, written by his personal collaborator and copy-editor from 1987-2006. The book discusses the variety of philosophies and movements that Bookchin helped shape, including social ecology, eco-decentralism, eco-anarchism and municipal democracy.
We will feature more information about this book in the coming weeks.
Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization
by Abdullah Öcalan, from New Compass Press
This is the first volume of the definitive work of Abdullah Öcalan, crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. These reflections represent the essence of his ideas on society, knowledge, and power. In this work Öcalan outlines a democratic alternative for the Middle East.
Political Ecology: Beyond Environmentalism
by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, from New Compass Press
Political Ecology, originally published in 1973, explains the history of environmental politics and its prospects for the future. It is now available in a new, expanded edition, which explores how we can channel the aspirations of environmentalism into political alternatives.
The PKK: Coming Down from the Mountains
Charting the ideological evolution of the PKK, as well as its origins, aims and structure, Paul White provides an authoritative and up-to-date analysis of one of the most important non-state political players in the contemporary Middle East. Describes how the PKK came to embrace a non-violent end to the conflict with Turkey and adopt a program of democratic autonomy, inspired in party by social ecology.
