The arts originated in the day-to-day activities of human communities. But through the confluence of the culture industry and status-driven high art, ...

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations were remarkably successful in capturing the public imagination and identifying the need for a new kind of politics. ...

Through an extensive body of political and philosophical ideas he called social ecology, Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) elucidated one of the first intellectual ...

Political Ecology explains the history of environmental politics and its prospects for the future. This highly readable classic is now available in ...

The disconcerting reappearance of fascism in many parts of the Western world since the late twentieth century has prompted a re-evaluation of previous ...

The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities ...

What defines Communalism? What distinguishes it from other radical ideologies? What social and political alternatives does it offer? 'Communalism as Alternative' ...

Today, there is an urgent need for a new politics. We must change our society to reverse the damage human societies make on the environment. To do so ...

How can we avert ecological catastrophe? How can we build community? What is the practical relevance of utopia? These are some of the questions anthropologist ...

Following the German reunification process in the 1990s, a new movement appeared in Germany. This movement rejected all forms of nationalism, including ...