Written by Stavros Stavrides. This concept-defining text first appeared in the anthology Uncovered: Nicosia International Airport (edited by Başak Şenova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou). Can public space be efficiently described as the space of public use? Should we ignore the role of those who guarantee or allow public use? And should we ignore also the effects […]
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The Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) is glad to announce its next conference on 25th – 27th October 2024 in Athens, Greece! Title: The Politics of Social Ecology: From Theory to Praxis Context Contemporary crises are making the struggle against capitalist modernity and its associated forms of domination more urgent than ever. The global […]
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Confronted to the devastating impacts of a changing climate and the ruthless abuses by the agro-business and big industry, peasants and citizens around the world have seen their right to access, use and manage freshwater under increasing threats and pressure. The struggle for water is amplifying globally, and a new chapter of this conflict was […]
Read More Report from the International Mobilization against Mega-Basins, July 2024
Written by Yavor Tarinski Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart. ~Matthew Desmond[1] The issue of housing is of fundamental importance that has a direct connection, among other basic rights, to democratic participation. Despite that (or because of it) it is being contested by capitalist forces worldwide. Capitalist […]
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Written by Marcy Isabella & Federico Venturini. Artwork by Yira Miranda Montero. Published in Troubling Spaces (Vol. 11 N°1, 2024) The mind. The mind? Well, we can’t quite live without it. Despite all (and oftentimes very persuasive) evidence to the contrary, our very existence relies on brain activity. On our behalf but without our assistance, […]
Read More Revolution & Reconciliation: The mind, the heart and the octopus
Written by Theo Rouhette The proliferation of decayed factories, military installations, rural villages or transportation networks is often attributed to the force of creative destruction under capitalism, the endogenous process that ‘incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one’ (Schumpeter, 1942). Marxist thinkers focused on the […]
Read More The Social Ecology of Ruins
A brochure by the Academy of Democratic Modernity, entitled: “Ecology: The Rebellion of the Environment”. It is a compilation of the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan about ecological problems and needed solutions. Presenting the booklet, the Academy said: “Alongside radical democracy and women’s liberation, ecology is also a central pillar in the paradigm of democratic modernity. […]
Read More Ecology – The Rebellion of the Environment (brochure)
Written by Iolanda Bianchi . Originally published in Spatial Justice and the Commons (Istanbul: Centre for Spatial Justice, 2019). Picture: Map reproduced from the European Municipalist Network (CC License BY-NC-SA 4.0 International) Over recent years, two concepts have been widely used in the urban studies vocabulary to generate and unify the multiform and variegated antagonistic […]
Read More Urban alternatives, to what degree? Parallelisms between Commons and Municipalism
“Casa encantada: A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte” is a book that brings together illustrations by Renato Baruq and photographs by Cadu Passos, both from the Kasa Invisível squat in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. During 2022 and 2023, the two Brazilian artists and organizers documented almost 20 old abandoned houses in the […]
Read More Casa encantada: A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte (e-book)
Written by Antijob media in Russian. The current English-language translation was done by Russian-speaking comrade for TRISE. Not that long ago we wrote about the occupation of mills and factories in Argentine, but as our subscribers rightly noted something similar – though unfortunately on a smaller scale and with its own particularities – happened in […]
Read More Lessons from the workers’ occupation of Vyborg’s factory in Russia