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Posts Tagged ‘Murray Bookchin’

Bioregionalism primer

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 23, 2017 | 6 Comments »

When I began my involvement with environmental politics in the 1980s, the main currents of radical or critical thought were represented by deep ecologists (or biocentrists), social ecologists (gathered around Murray Bookchin and his Institute for Social Ecology), and ecofeminists, and they seemed more at odds with each other than united. Marxists and socialists (especially around […]

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Assessing Murray Bookchin’s legacy

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on July 12, 2016 | 5 Comments »

Damian White has posted an excellent review of Janet Biehl’s book Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin at the Jacobin blog. Bookchin’s legacy has undergone something of a revival of late thanks to the efforts of Kurdish eco-socialist communitarians in Rojava.

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The Rojava Experiment

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 29, 2015 | 3 Comments »

Wes Enzinna’s New York Times Magazine article on “The Rojava Experiment” finally gives mainstream recognition to what has been happening among the Kurds of northern Syria. As he writes, “In accordance with a philosophy laid out by a leftist revolutionary named Abdullah Ocalan, Rojavan women had been championed as leaders, defense of the environment enshrined […]

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The ecology of Syrian/Kurdish freedom

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 16, 2015 | 5 Comments »

Eco-theorists may recognize the title of this post as a variation on the title of Murray Bookchin’s audacious and deeply influential (for many, including myself) 1982 book The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (pdf here). What’s little known to anyone following recent news about the war in Syria is that an 18,300 sq. […]

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