** Introduction
*** About this Book
*** Getting Started: Understanding Ecological Disasters and Inequality
*** Changing the World
*** The Role of the Activist-Researcher
*** Contributions to this Volume
*** Acknowledgements
*** References
* PART 1: Discovering Social Ecology
** The Legacy of Murray Bookchin
*** Introduction
*** The Modern Crisis
*** Social Ecology
*** Dialectical Naturalism and Ethics
*** The Politics of Libertarian Socialism
*** References
** Social Ecology: A Philosophy for the Future
*** Theory and Practice
*** The Role of Education
*** Utopian Thinking
*** The Principles of Social Ecology
*** Opposition
*** Reconstruction
*** Politics
** A Critique of The Limits of Growth from a Social Ecology Perspective
*** A Green Growth Economy
*** The Right to the City and Space-Making
*** Commons for a “Steady-State Economy”
*** What Sorts of Growth do We Want?
*** References
* PART 2: Engaging with the Right to the City
** Is the Right to the City a Right or a Revolution?
*** The Paradigm of the Urban Miracle, or How Global Capitalism Has Reached Massive Consent
*** Lefebvre and the Philosophy of Urban Revolution
*** The Emergence of the Right to the City as a Global Claim for Socio-Spatial Justice
*** Municipalities: At the Forefront of the Right to the City?
*** What if Urban Revolution Meant Permanent Insurrection?
*** References
** Moving Beyond the Right to the City: Urban Commoning in Greece
*** The Right to the City
*** The Urban Commons
*** Urban Struggles in Greece
*** The Subject of Social Mobilisation
*** References
** Reconceptualising the Right to the City and Spatial Justice Through Social Ecology
*** Introduction: Critically Exploring the Right to the City
*** Critically Exploring Spatial Justice
*** A Convergence of Concepts
*** Reconceptualising Citizenship, Justice, and Freedom
*** Reconceptualising the Right to the City and Spatial Justice
*** Conclusion
*** References
* PART 3: The Kurdish Answer: Democratic Confederlism
** The Evolution of the Kurdish Paradigm
*** The Early Years (1970–1989)
*** Soul-Searching within the PKK (1990–2010)
*** Öcalan’s Abduction and Captivity (1999-)
*** The Present: Where Do the Answers Lie?
** The Democratization of Cities in North Kurdistan
*** The History of Cities in North Kurdistan
*** Cities Under the Governance of the Kurdish Freedom Movement
*** Challenges
*** Urban Warfare and the New Wave of Gentrification
* PART 4: Transforming Social Theory
** Do We Need a New Theory of the State?
*** The Current Transition of World Leadership
*** The Heritage of Domination
*** The Axial Age and Later Developments
*** China in the Twenty-First Century
*** The Strength of the Chinese State Model
*** A New State Theory for the Struggles to Come
*** References
** Direct Democracy, Social Ecology, and Public Time
*** Aspects of the Global Crisis of Significations
*** The Problems of the Internet Age
*** The Emergence of New Significations
*** The Political Significance of Public Time
*** References
** The Present is Pregnant with a New Future
*** Gradual versus Abrupt Change in Western Thought
*** Abrupt Social Changes in the Past and Present
*** Shadow Society and Abrupt Change
*** Regime Shift Theory in Biology and its Relevance to Society
*** Societal Phase Shift and Social Movements
*** References
* PART 5: Walking with the Right to the City
** Squatting as Claiming the Right to the City
*** Methodological Frame
*** Financial Urban Management and the Right to the City in Brazil and Spain
*** Squats and Occupations
*** The Struggle for Housing in Spain
*** The Social Housing Movements in Brazil
*** A Transnational Comparison between Brazilian and Spanish Practices of Occupation and Squatting
*** Conclusion: Towards an Internationalization of Urban Social Movements
*** References
** Rights Begin in the Small Places Closest to Home: A Story from Constitution Street
** Notes on the Contributors