The Emergence of Eco-Decentralism

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Biehl, Janet. The Emergence of Eco-Decentralism: Mumford Gutkind Bookchin. New Compass Press, 2012. 9788293064107.

Abstract

“Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) was the originator and primary theorist of social ecology, a radical politics that insists on the social roots of environmental destruction. Over the course of his long life Bookchin constructed social ecology as a coherent framework encompassing ecological politics, nature philosophy, anthropology, revolutionary history, face-to-face democracy, and urban decentralism. In this pamphlet Janet Biehl traces the evolution of Bookchin’s eco-decentralism from the work of two earlier thinkers, Lewis Mumford and E. A. Gutkind.”

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