Social Ecologist Profile: Rafter Sass of Urbana, IL
Please introduce yourself (What kind of work you do, Where you live, etc.) I’m a research agroecologist, Permaculture designer, and educator-activist. I recently moved to Urbana, IL, with my partner Brook, where I’m working on a PhD at University of Illinois. As a Permaculturist and ecological designer, I’ve done work in waste and water treatment, agroforestry, whole farm and homestead […]
Chodorkoff’s novel “Loisaida” now available
ISE co-founder, longtime Director, and current Board member Dan Chodorkoff’s long-awaited and much-anticipated novel Loisaida (Fomite Press) is now available from Amazon. Please do also contact your local bookseller and request that they order Loisaida. In related news, Dan reports that his Loisaida reading at the 2011 NYC Anarchist Bookfair went very well! Here’s the novel’s description, as provided […]
Audio: NYC Anarchist Bookfair Closing Plenary with Ashanti Alston
Audio from the closing plenary of the 2011 New York City Anarchist Bookfair featuring ISE associate Ashanti Alston is now available. Click here to link to the audio.
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. […]
Continuing the dialogue
Some background, to help contextualize this piece for those who might be new to this discussion. This past January, I published a short essay “Social ecology needs development, dissent, dynamism” on the Social Ecology Blog hosted on the Institute for Social Ecology’s website. My intention was not to specifically articulate my own evolving perspective but to try and […]
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 […]
