Transnational Institute of Social Ecology

Tolerance, Progress, and the Legacy of the Enlightenment

Written by Atle Hesmyr. Originally published in Communalism, Issue #2 (2010). Looking back along the lines of European history, one may often come to pose the question whether the developments that have occurred involved a real and substantial progress for humanity. High cultures like ancient Athens, with their direct and participatory democracy and exquisite civic […]

March 21, 2022
Posted in Articles / Analyses

Common Futures: Social Transformation and Political Ecology – Book Review

Written by Dimitrios Roussopoulos “Man is by nature a political animal.” Aristotle, Politics, Book i, 2 “If Liberty and Equality, as is thought, by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will best be attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.” Aristotle, Politics, Book iv, 4 TWO EXCEPTIONAL […]

February 27, 2022
Posted in Publications/Reviews
Tags: Dimitri Roussopoulos

Democracy Education for Ecology and Participation – Training (DEEP-T)

INFORMATION PACK Project Description The DEEP-T project aims to explore in a collective way the roots of the ecological and climate crisis, and how to deal with them for a just and sustainable future. You will have the opportunity to discover relevant topics such as the EU Green Deal, degrowth and zero waste. Moreover, you […]

February 23, 2022
Posted in Announcements

Institutionalizing the State of Exception: The İmralı Isolation Regime

Written by Faik Özgür Erol The Political Thought of the Imrali Prison Complex and the Öcalan Laws The attempt to understand the prison isolation of İmralı as a negative expression of a prohibition order does not do justice to the issue at hand. The weakness of this attempt lies in the desire to explain power […]

February 17, 2022
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Kurdish quest, Öcalan

Cities: The Unfolding of Reason in History

Written by Murray Bookchin. Originally published as a chapter of the book “The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies & the Promise of Direct Democracy” (2015) Libertarian municipalism constitutes the politics of social ecology, a revolutionary effort in which freedom is given institutional form in public assemblies that become decision-making bodies. It depends upon libertarian leftists running […]

January 5, 2022
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Libertarian Municipalism, Murray Bookchin, The Right to the City

Communıty of Squatted Prosfygıka – an autonomous neighborhood at the heart of Athens

The so called Prosfygika, located at the heart of the city of Athens, is a complex of buildings that was built in the mid-1930s to house refugees from Asia Minor. Since 2011 the area has been functioning as a self-organized urban community with the creation of Assembly of the Occupied Prosfygika, from which many grassroots […]

December 20, 2021
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Greece, The Right to the City

Climate Justice and Community Renewal – Book Review

A book review, written by Bob Spivey, of Climate Justice and Community Renewal (edited by Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson, New York, Routledge, 2020). The COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland must be added to a long series of failures of UN-convened international meetings to meet the urgent social and ecological needs of a world threatened […]

December 6, 2021
Posted in Publications/Reviews
Tags: Climate change

Rojava and Catalonia (Documentary)

In the summer of 2021, a group of Catalan activists and politicians visited the autonomous region of Northeastern Syria, also known as Rojava, with the aim of getting to understand better the democratic experiment in self-management that is currently taking place there. During their visit they visited many places, institutions and made important meetings. The […]

November 27, 2021
Posted in Articles / Analyses, Video
Tags: Catalonia, Rojava

Video recordings from our 2021 conference

In 2021 we at TRISE commemorated the 100th anniversary from the birth of Murray Bookchin (1921 – 2006), founding theorist of social ecology and one of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century, with an online transnational conference. The two-day event was well attended and provided a space for dialogue between activists and scholars, […]

November 1, 2021
Posted in Conferences, Video
Tags: Murray Bookchin

A Big Part of the Human Whole is Still Treated as Property: Femicides in Greece

by Nikos Vrantsis According to the European Institute for Gender Equality, femicide is recognized as ”the murder of women and girls because of their gender.” Gender based violence and murders are not new, but they remain undisclosed. Greece is no exception to that. According to Greek Police data, 69 women were murdered in the years […]

October 29, 2021
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Feminism, Greece One Comment