Audio: Capitalism, Climate Change, and Social Conflicts
Now Available: audio from a 2011 Left Forum panel discussion entitled “Capitalism, Climate Change, and Social Conflicts.” The panelists include ISE Director Brian Tokar, Chris Williams (Pace University), and Younes Abouyoub (Columbia University). The panel was sponsored by the Union for Radical Political Economics and was chaired by Emily Giles. Click here to link to the audio.
New Perspectives in Social Ecology
by Eric Jacobson I wanted to add my voice to the discussion that has been initiated on these pages on whether fresh ideas can brought to the table of Social Ecology. By Social Ecology, I mean the human dimension of nature, both the phenomenological inter-subjectivity between humans and the environment (we are beings that are […]
Social Ecology talk at Yale April 14th
Murray Bookchin, Social Ecology and American Environmentalism Damian White, Associate Professor of Sociology, The Rhode Island School of Design Dept of Environmental Studies and Forestry, Yale University; April 14th, 2011 Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St. New Haven CT 7 pm. Murray Bookchin first wrote a critique of the use of chemicals in agriculture in 1952. […]
Social Ecologist Profile: Rafa Grinfeld of Antwerp, Belgium
[Editor’s note: We are very grateful to Rafa for his contribution to the Social Ecologist Profile series, especially considering English is not his first language.] Please introduce yourself (What kind of work you do, Where you live, etc.) I live in Belgium, that’s where I have lived almost all of my life. I have been […]
Chodorkoff’s novel “Loisaida” to be released April 9, 2011
ISE co-founder, longtime Director, and current Board member Dan Chodorkoff’s long-awaited and much-anticipated novel Loisaida is set to be released next week by Fomite Press. You will be able to purchase the novel via the Fomite Press website as well as Amazon, though we do not have that information as of this writing. Please do […]
Letter to ISE community from Jonas Ben Telson
To my friends and comrades at the ISE, I am writing from the Ramón González Coro Maternity Hospital in Havana, Cuba. The tedious job of monitoring expectant women near or in labor is relegated to fourth-year medical students like me. On this uneventful night I am passing the time reading downloaded news articles from Democracy […]
Announcing New Compass Press
New Compass is a continuation of Communalism – A Social Ecology Journal, a project allied with the ISE. They have several new published articles as well as a newly published book “Art as Politics” by Adam Krause. From the New Compass “About” page: New movements need new ideas. New Compass presents new and powerful ideas on direct […]
A Statement from the ISE Board
The Board of the Institute for Social Ecology has asked that the following statement be posted to the Social Ecology Blog and that it be *added as a sort of guideline text for comments on posts and articles on the ISE website: The Institute for Social Ecology is committed to the spirit of free inquiry, and we hope that […]
Eiglad replies to Hardy
[For background, please see the brief post “Making public a proposal for public debate” including the comments on that post. Then please see Karl Hardy’s response “Reply to Eirik Eiglad.”] Karl Hardy, I am not sure what to make of this. You have now written a reply to me as a separate article on this […]
Invitation: 5th Annual Institute for Social Ecology Summer Colloquium
INVITATION & CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: “Social Ecology and the Future of Resistance” Fifth Annual Summer Colloquium – Institute for Social Ecology Marshfield, VT USA August 19-21 Application/Registration Deadline: June 1, 2011 (please see below) Contact: admin@social-ecology.org
