Social ecologists at the Left Forum in NY City
Once again, faculty and associates of the ISE will be participating in several panels at the annual Left Forum, scheduled for May 30th – June 1st in New York City. Following huge turnouts that stretched the limits of available spaces at Pace University, the Forum has been moved uptown to the John Jay College of […]
Jerome Roos: Why is there less protest today?
In a recent post to his website, ROARmag.org, Jerome Roos unpacks 2 recent articles aiming to explain the apparent decline in protest since 2011, and suggests some explanations of his own, focused on the triad of precarity, anxiety, and perceived futility. Roos argues that there’s considerably more protest in the US and Europe than there […]
Tikkun Magazine symposium: Does America Need a Left?
This special feature in Tikkun‘s Spring 2014 issue contains many prominent voices, including three people with long histories with the Institute for Social Ecology: Chaia Heller, Blair Taylor and Janet Biehl. They join other well-known writers, including Barbara Ehrenreich, Stanley Aronowitz and Michael Lerner, in addressing this important question. This Table of Contents mirrors the […]
Bookchin pages on libcom.org
A colleague at the University of Vermont has drawn our attention to a series of about 20 posts on libcom.org of articles, pamphlets, book excerpts, and commentaries by and about Murray Bookchin. It includes some fairly rare materials, and is definitely worth a look. See http://libcom.org/tags/murray-bookchin.
New social ecology book from Barcelona
We have received an email informing us of a new book in Spanish, titled Bookchin y la Ecología Social, published by Libélula Verde in Barcelona. Their description, roughly translated says: The publication brings us Social Ecology, from the hand of the US thinker, Murray Bookchin. Given the many challenges of today’s society, this book is […]
On Wall St. and Organizing Nature
A provocative interview published in 2011 in the Toronto-based journal Upping the Anti offers a fresh outlook on key questions of society and nature, and offers important resonances with Murray Bookchin’s writings. The piece addresses how societies define ecological relationships, and touches on issues of technology, productivity, commodification, and the accumulation of capital. The interviewee, […]
Direct democracy in Ukraine?
From a recent blog post by our colleague Adrian Ivakhiv, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Vermont. His blog on the ongoing events in Ukraine is called UKR-TAZ: A Ukrainian Temporary Autonomous Zone: Analyzing the Maidan & Its Aftermath: [T]he Maidan [Arabic for a public square] movement has shown a tremendous degree […]
Brian Tokar on Dave Van Ronk vs. “Llewyn Davis”
For a change of pace from our usual entries, here’s a commentary just posted on Counterpunch by Brian Tokar. The original title was “Dave Van Ronk’s story is much better than Llewyn Davis’ – and a lot more fun,” and Counterpunch shortened it to “The Real Van Ronk.” Tokar compares the acclaimed Coen Brothers’ film, […]
New international handbook of the climate change movement
Several contributions by ISE faculty member Brian Tokar are featured in the brand new Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement. Tokar’s chapters include an in-depth review of the emergence of climate justice as a movement-building paradigm, along with several organizational profiles. Edited by 2 professors from the University of Bremen in Germany, the Handbook […]
Murray Bookchin cited in the New Yorker
The January 13th issue of the magazine includes an interesting article by New Yorker correspondent Evgeny Morozov critiquing a new “Makers” movement that combines elements of home crafts and computer hacking with high-tech tools, from 3D printers to what are described as “personal drones.” Like some elements of the “appropriate technology” movement of the 1970s, […]
