Transnational Institute of Social Ecology

Video recordings from our 2024 conference

In October 2024 we at TRISE organized our latest international conference, which took place in Athens. The encounter aimed to respond to the need to build a decentralized, autonomous and evolving movement through a series of activities including presentations and workshops. It opened a space of dialogue – an agora for the echange of practices and ideas – gathering many concerned citizens, activists, and researchers from different parts of the world.

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all those who contributed in making this conference such a memorable and insightful experience.

Below you can view videos from the panel cessions of our 2024 international conference that took place in Athens.

Friday 25th October

Panel Session: Knowledge production and social movements theory
• Federico Venturini – Social ecology and research approach: reflections towards a situated knowledge production
• Georgios Poulados – Social Movements: Theory and Praxis
• Girlwouthoutaruler – No pain no gain: an overwhelming utopia
• Emre Çetin Gürer – Prefigurative Politics: Past and Present

Panel Session: The economy and social movements praxis
• Bianca Griffani – How counter-hegemonic notions of economic and ecological sustainability are built ‘from below’, by engaging the criminalised practices and socialities of radical ‘outlaw’ farmers in late industrial Italy
• Leif Thomas Olsen – Taxes as Behavioural Incentives: A Tax Revolution to the Benefit of All
• Alexandros Schismenos – Digital commons and the informational structuring of democratic politics
• Emma Quayle, Miki Kashtan, and Selene Aswell – A Global Maternal Gift Economy as an Alternative to Global Capitalism

Panel Session 3: Lights and shadow of urbanism
• Jere Kuzmanić – Urbanism as social ecology? Dweller Control and Anarchist Urbanism in the 20th Century
• Nikos Vrantsis – The hidden abode of the Green Transition

Keynote Speaker
• Stavros Stavrides – Challenging capitalist urban order: in search of a noncapitalist future

Book Launches: Reclaiming Cities: Revolutionary Dimensions of Political Participation by Y. Tarinski; Greek publication of Communalism As Alternative by E. Eiglad; Acting Here And Now by F. Romero; Power to Create, Power to Destroy by F. Venturini, T. Rouhette, M. Isabella (eds.)

Saturday 26th October

Keynote Speaker
• Floréal M. Romero – Movement and strategy for communalism today

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Panel Session: Challenging social ecology and next steps
• Michael Opielka – Communalism, Garantism, Social Ecology: The strategic function of social sustainability in the 21st century
• Federico Venturini – Social Ecology and waste: rethinking our mode of production and consumption
• Emma Quayle, Miki Kashtan, and Selene Aswell – Feminist Nonviolence as Liberation for All: The Power of the Soft Qualities to Transform Patriarchy

Panel Session: Decolonisation and social movements praxis
• Katerina-Shelagh Boucoyannis – Community led & just energy transition as a response to extractivism: the case of Intag, Ecuador
• Sinead D’Silva – Youth community-led resistance against environmental degradation of infrastructure projects in Goa, India
• Alex Foti – From Internationalism in Socialism to Transnationalism in Climatism
• Matthew Tafoya – Native Nation Building: A decolonizing approach to improve the social ecology of an Indigenous community located within an American Indian concentration camp

Panel Session: The Kurdish question
• Azize Cay – A Feminist Approach to Challenging the Psychological Dimensions of Hierarchy (Micro-Hierarchies) : The Kurdish Movement’s Practices with Jineology and Tekmil

Sunday 27th October

Keynote Speaker
• Ana Méndez de Andés – Municipalism as an ecology of practices

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Panel Session: Taking decisions for a direct democracy
• Theodoros Karyotis – Are we learning from defeat? Or, why is there no municipalist movement in Greece?
• Zdravko Saveski – The Largely Ignored Possibility of a Large-Scale Direct Democracy
• Yavor Tarinski – Internationalism and the universal sentiment towards direct democracy

Panel Session: Communities and social movements praxis
• Emet Değirmenci – Edge effects: Resiliency and Struggle in Antioch after 2023 Earthquake
• Orestes Kolokouris – Towards a participative protection of Commons: methods and limits
• Ewan Jenkins – Les Soulèvements de la Terre and the Praxis of Composition
• Jennifer Eva Pillau – Hearth to Hearth: A Resilient Future will be Matriarchal

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Panel Session: Nature, the rural and social movements praxis
• Christos Kotakis – A cooperative plant lab for research and development in a rural zone, as an anti-example of social anarchism
• Elias Casanovas Adrián – The village’s herd model: The emergence of pastoralism as a tool for integrated landscape management
• Zuzanna Ludzik – Adapting forest gardening for urban settings
• Olivia Chandler – From Eco-Utopia to Reality: Building a Praxis of Social Ecology