Yesterday in athe School of Geography I helped to organize the seminar Recovering Bookchin with Andy Price as part of the Leeds School of Geography Seminars. Murray Bookchin is a key author in Social Ecology which is an important political reference and framework for my research/activism.
Flyer of the event: Recovering Bookchin flyer
Through an extensive body of political and philosophical ideas he called social ecology, Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) elucidated one of the first intellectual responses to the ecological crisis. However, over the last two decades of his life Bookchin’s ideas slipped from focus, obscured by the emergence of a crude caricature that portrayed him as a dogmatic sectarian who intended to dominate the radical left for his own personal motivations. In Recovering Bookchin, Andy Price revisits the Bookchin caricature and critically discounts it as the product of a largely misguided literature that focused on Bookchin the individual and not his ideas. By looking afresh at Bookchin’s work, Price argues that his contribution can be seen to provide a coherent practical and theoretical response to the ecological and social crises of our time.
Dr Price is Principal Lecturer in Politics at The Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics, Sheffield Hallam University. His research focus is on political theory of currently emerging social movements. Please find Price’s staff profile HERE.
Thank you to Andy for the vivid talk (and all the suggestions for my research!) and to all the people that have participated.
For all who could not attend and are interested, I post here the audio of Andi’s presentation.
Andy Price
An attentive audience
