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Grace Gershuny on the evolution of the organic food movement

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Grace Gershuny on the evolution of the organic food movement

Learning from History, Going on From Here  (originally published on Grace’s blog, Organic Revolutionary) The world has changed considerably in the forty years since I attended my first NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association) Conference–then also billed as a “celebration of rural life.” So too has the organization, which has gone from a marginal little group …

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By Grace Gershuny | November 2nd, 2018 | Article Archive, Grace Gershuny, Green & Food Politics, Social Ecology Blog | 0 Comments |
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Peoples’ Tribunal on Fracking & Climate Change

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Peoples’ Tribunal on Fracking & Climate Change

The historic Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking, and Climate Change took place on May 14th – 18th, co-hosted by the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.  The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT or Tribunal) is a highly respected international forum that grew from the Russell-Sartre Tribunal to investigate whether …

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By ISE | October 14th, 2018 | Social Ecology Blog | 0 Comments |
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Online Seminar: Social Transformation Beyond Pragmatism or Utopia

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Online Seminar: Social Transformation Beyond Pragmatism or Utopia

Enroll today for our five-session online seminar Social Transformation Beyond Pragmatism or Utopia. Taught by ISE affiliate Robert Ogman, this five-session seminar will explore the challenges and possibilities of linking visions of emancipation to forms of practical political engagement.

By ISE | September 11th, 2018 | Featured, Social Ecology Blog | 0 Comments |
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New book on the Kurdish movement

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New book on the Kurdish movement

Federico Venturini, an Italian friend of the Institute and recent PhD recipient from the University of Leeds in the UK, has co-edited a new collection, Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdoğan’s Turkey, now available from Black Rose Books.  The book, co-edited with Thomas Jeffrey Miley, a sociology lecturer at …

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By ISE | August 24th, 2018 | Book Reviews, Current Movements, Political Theory: Anarchism, Communalism & Libertarian Municipalism, Social Ecology Blog, Topic | 0 Comments |
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Review of Andreas Malm’s The Progress of This Storm

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Review of Andreas Malm’s The Progress of This Storm

In These Times editor and ISE affiliate Dayton Martindale has written an excellent critical review of eco-Marxist Andreas Malm’s new book on climate change, The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World.  He argues that by resurrecting a problematic dichotomy between man and nature, Malm’s theoretical and political vision constrains the possibilities of …

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By ISE | July 11th, 2018 | Article Archive, Social Ecology Blog | 0 Comments |
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Z.A.D. and the Revenge Against the Commons, by John Jordan

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Z.A.D. and the Revenge Against the Commons, by John Jordan

ISE affiliate and longtime activist John Jordan has written an account of the Z.A.D. autonomous territory in Western France that is now under attack by the French state. “As you may well know, Isa and I and our collective the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination moved to the autonomous territory of the zad in western France …

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By ISE | May 1st, 2018 | Article Archive, Social Ecology Blog | 0 Comments |
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New book from Matt Hern

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New book from Matt Hern

Long-time ISE lecturer Matt Hern has an excellent new book just out, combining an extended travelogue to the center of Canada’s tar sands with an engaging dose of social theory and free-form political commentary.  Here’s what the publisher, MIT Press, says about Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale, co-written by …

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By ISE | April 25th, 2018 | Climate Justice, Political Theory: Anarchism, Communalism & Libertarian Municipalism, Social Ecology Blog | 0 Comments |
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The ZAD Becomes Compost: LONG LIVE THE ZAD (Zone a Defendre)!

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The ZAD Becomes Compost: LONG LIVE THE ZAD (Zone a Defendre)!

By Beverly Naidus When something you have witnessed, loved and cared for is destroyed and uprooted, whether it is a forest, a species, a community or a culture, it can wreck the spirit. The trauma of these violent actions, informed by greed and ignorance, can ripple out widely, encouraging resistance, but it requires attention. In …

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By ISE | April 13th, 2018 | Article Archive, Social Ecology Blog | 0 Comments |
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