Key texts and references on social ecology
By Murray Bookchin
Bookchin, Murray. 2022 (1996). The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism. Chico: AK Press.
Bookchin, Murray. 2005 (1982). The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy. Oakland: AK Press.
Bookchin, Murray. 2004 (1971). Post-Scarcity Anarchism. Oakland: AK Press.
Bookchin, Murray. 2021 (1987). From Urbanization to Cities: The Politics of Democratic Municipalism. Chico: AK Press.
Introductory texts on social ecology
White, Damian. F. 2008. Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal. London: Pluto Press.
Price, A. 2023. Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crisis of Our Time. Oakland: AK Press.
By other authors
Biehl, Janet 1998. The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism. Montreal: Black Rose Books.
Biehl, Janet 1999. The Murray Bookchin Reader. Montreal: Black Rose Books.
Heller, Chaia. 1999. The Ecology of Everyday Life: Rethinking the Desire for Nature. Montreal: Black Rose Books.
Chodorkoff, Dan. 2014. The Anthropology of Utopia. Porsgrunn: New Compass.
Tokar, Brian. 2014. Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change. Porsgrunn: New Compass.
A decolonial perspective
Kadalie, Modibo. 2019. Pan-African Social Ecology. Atlanta: On Our Own Authority! Publishing
Hunt, Stephen 2021. Ecological solidarity in the Kurdish freedom movement. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Collective books on social ecology
Eiglad, Eiglad (editor) 2012. Social Ecology and Social Change. Porsgrunn: New Compass.
Venturini, Federico, Degirmenci, Emet and Morales, Ines (eds.) (2019). Social Ecology and the Right to the City. Quebec: Black Rose Books.