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Athens TRISE Book Publication - Structure and main themes of the book

This group is dedicated to a collective reflection on the main themes that emerge from the papers and the way that will structure the book. What follows is a preliminary listing of the categories presented at the conference :

  • Zapatista struggles
  • Kurdish struggles
  • Ecological economics and critiques of neoliberalism
  • Education, training, academia
  • Solidarity, love and collective design
  • Municipalism and urban movements
  • Theorizing a culture of resistance
  • Creation, utopia and resistance to creation
  • Ecology towards a culture of resistance

Below is a broad distribution of each papers into the above categories, in order to have a preliminary overview of the different weights of the emerging themes :

Zapatista struggles
- Tanya Valiente (keynote) : "Breaking military siege, amplifying autonomous territory: Current steps in the Zapatista struggle and an international call"

Kurdish struggles
- Recep Akgun : "The Democratic Autonomy Project: The Promises and Limitations in the Case of Turkey"
- International Commune of Rojava (keynote) : “The Revolution in Rojava: to combine internationalism and ecological struggles”
- Vittorio Sabatini: “Murray Bookchin’s libertarian approach. From social ecology to revolution in Rojava”

Zapatista/Kurdish struggles
- Leo Jubault : "Destitution and Autonomy in Chiapas and Rojava"

Ecological economics and critiques of neoliberalism
- Olli Tammilehto : "Thinking about ecological economy on the basis of movement experiences"
- Yavor Tarinsky : "The Interconnectedness of Ecology and Democracy: Towards a strategy “from below”"
- Peper Piperkov : "How democratization and radicalization of economic education and knowledge can help us build a culture of resistance?"

Education, training, academia
- Amanda Priebe : "The Abolition Journal Project - Against and Beyond Academia"
- Isabella Marcy : "Watching Out and Getting Woke: Notes Towards an AnarchoCritical Pedagogy"

Solidarity, love and collective design
- Matt York : "Collective Visioning, Revolutionary Love, and co-imagining radical social transformation in the 21st century"
- Eve Olney : "Cultivating a Culture of Resistance through Collective Design"
- Collettivo Korov'ev: “Love, Art and Revolution”

Municipalism and urban movements
- Ines Morales (keynote) : "Radical Urban Movements Contradictions in times of Multiple crisis of Social Reproduction. Urban Food Struggles in Lisbon, Madrid and Athens"
- Giovanni Lupieri : "The Movimento Studentesco di Udine, from school to the entire society: network, libertarian practices and social center)"
- Magali Fricaudet (keynote) : "From radical utopia to the exercise of municipal governance: How can we think strategically the municipalist struggle?"
- Georgios Daremas : "Building cultures of resistance through Solidarity Initiatives in the era of Greek crisis"
- Elliott Woodhouse : "The National Food Service: using the principles of social ecology to challenge social isolation, food waste and food poverty in the North of England"
- Krini Kafiris : "Reflections on a sustainable organising training: potentials for Greek activism"
- Maloxx project: “Livorno and its Surrounding-World - Municipalism and self-determination of territories”
- Sotiris Lycourghiotis: “Climate change and second generation biofuels. The dilemma between mass production and local production. A geographic approach to the problem”
- Orestis Varkarolis : "A culture of (degeneration) resistance for radical co-operators inspired by Social Ecology"
- Nikolas Kanavaris: “Healing common spaces | Psychodrama in Gavdos”
- Theo Rouhette: “A revolutionary agenda whose time has come: municipalism in the yellow vest movement”

Theorizing a culture of resistance
- Federico Venturini : "Building a culture of resistance for the struggles to come"

Creation, utopia and resistance to creation
- Yuliya Moskvina : "The power to create and the political resistance to creation"

Ecology towards a culture of resistance
- Emet Degirmenci : "Capitalism and the Anthropocene"
- Jelena Pantel : "Stability and resistance to invasion in ecological networks – what can we earn from natural community and ecosystem structure that can help build stable autonomous communities?"
- Brian Tokar (keynote) : “Climate Justice and the Politics of Resistance”
- Matyas Krizkovsky : "Anti-politics and a new form of “the political”: Thinking utopia(s) through a disaster"

Uncertain contributions:
- Frederik Vrijman: “WeTheFuture - Homes”
- Iman Ganji iman.gnj@gmail.com
- Markus Lundström markus.lundstrom@ekohist.su.se
- Timon Krause timonkrause@inventati.org

Main problems:
- few sections have only 1 contributions
- the section "Municipalism and urban movements" is to full