LITERATURE
BOOKS
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ANARCHISM AND ECOLOGY Graham Purchase Black Rose Books The history of our slow alienation from locale with proposals for integrated and sustainable solutions to the global eco-malaise. Price: 140kr |
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ANARCHISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL SURVIVAL Graham Purchase See Sharp Press A wide ranging collection of essays which graphically demonstrate the relation of classical libertarian thought to ecological and other issues - including bio-regionalism, feminism, animal rights, labour organising and technology. Price: 110kr |
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DEEP ECOLOGY & ANARCHISM Murray Bookchin, Graham Purchase, Brian Morris among others. Freedom Press Freedom Press Debate by various luminaries on deep ecology, social ecology, and anarchism. |
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POST-SCARCITY ANARCHISM Murray Bookchin AK Press "Probably the foremost Green philosopher of the age." - David Nicholson-Lord (The Independent) A modern anarchist classic! Bookchin argues that material scarcity need no longer plague human history. Through the dissolution of hierarchal relations, social and cultural potentials can now be fulfilled in our "post-scarcity" era. When the naysayers and lickspittles ask of the social revolutionary movements, "yes, but what do you want?", well here at least is one rational answer. Bookchin gives us an inspiring vision of how a non-hierarchal, ecologically-minded and anti-capitalist society can equitably meet human needs. This Third Edition comes with a new Introduction from the Author. Price: 130kr |
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The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy Murray Bookchin AK Press "The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human." With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, "The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book of breathtaking scope, its inspired synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future. Murray Bookchin, cofounder of the Institute for Social Ecology, has been an active voice in the ecology and anarchist movements for more than 40 years. Price: 140kr |
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Toolbox For Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew South End Press When people envision food production or toxic cleanups, the last setting most likely imagine is New York City. But with more than half the world’s population now residing—and struggling to survive—in cities, we can no longer afford to think of sustainability as something that applies only to forests and fields. We need sustainable living right where so many of us are: in urban neighborhoods. But how do we do it? That’s where this guide comes in. Seven years ago, the Rhizome Collective transformed an abandoned Austin, Texas, warehouse into a sustainability training center. Here, with their first book, two of Rhizome’s founders provide step-by-step instructions for city dwellers—those who have never foraged or gardened along with those who have done dumpster-diving and CSAs—with directions for producing our own food, collecting water, managing waste, reclaiming land, and generating energy. With vibrant illustrations created by a member of the Beehive Collective and descriptive text based on years of experimentation, Stacy and Scott explain how to build and grow with cheap, salvaged, and recycled materials, making the Guide an accessible and relevant tool for all members of the community. This manual enables us to move from envisioning a future with resources for all to living it. Price: 135kr |
PAMPHLETS
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ANARCHISM VS. PRIMITIVISM Brian Oliver Shepard See Sharp Press This important pamphlet looks closely at the fundamental conflicts between anarchism and primitivism. It traces primitivism’s basic precepts back to their authoritarian roots, reveals primitivist misconceptions about anarchism, capitalism and technology, shows how the corporate media have used primitivism to discredit anarchism, and also shows how ideology-driven primitivists, much like fundamentalist christians opposed to evolution, have picked through anthropological evidence to support their predetermined conclusions, while ignoring data that contradict those conclusions. Sheppard also considers the many primitivist straw-man attacks upon anarchism, and asks: What kind of an anarchist movement do we want — one that looks often-ugly, authoritarian social reality in the eye, with the aim of transforming it into something that will lead to freer, happier lives for all of us on planet Earth, or one that wastes its time fantasizing about a nonexistent Golden Age, and that would result in the deaths of billions if its precepts were followed? Price: 25kr |
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ECOLOGY AND CLASS Where There's Brass There's Muck. Anarchist Federation (UK) This looks at the ecological crisis facing us today, what is being done about it and our views on what an ecologically sustainable world would be like. Brings class analysis to the enviromental struggle. Price: 30kr |
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THE GREEN CITY Graham Purchase Jura Media New Anarchy Pamphlet Series This booklet about the possibilities for creating green sustainable and self-governing cities in a future social-environmental anarchy is one of a number of related pamphlets concerning specific areas of anarchist theory and practice. By anarchism we understand a future of society consisting of self-governing communities enmeshed in the ecological dynamics of the bio-region in wich they are located. The idea is not to return to small and isolated villages. Rather, we wish that they federate from the bottom upwards upon a regional, interregional and intercontinental basis. Eventually this would form a global federation of bio-regions. Interregional trade and communication requires transport, telecommunications, postal and power industries. These vital services will be provided by worker controlled industrial unions operating on the basis of public needs and environmental enhancement rather than for profit. Service industries (childcare, laundry, etc) and small trades it is hoped would be organised along communal lines by citizens of the commune or region. Other titles in the New Anarchy Pamphlet Series concern themselves with some of the specifics of creating such a society. The series include discussions of Mapping Our Green Anarchist Future, Law & Authority, Agriculture, Money, and The Anarchist Revolution. |
