GMU:Thinking In Tanks/Lisa Richter

Hi :) I'm studying mediaculture in the second semester (bachelor). A long time ago (2011) I started studying economics, but never finished and worked in retail/fashion for about 6 years. I also spent a year in a neo liberal republican family in the US as a nanny...for a long time I considered myself so called "apolitical" because I just didn't critically think about the worldviews around me, much less had my own if that makes sense. That changed in recent years and I got really into exploring different thinking tanks and my view on things. Aside from thinking about our current system and the ideologies that come with it, I want to explore the ways we interact with each other/ organize on this planet and how our relationships/ideologies have shaped our relationship with/impact on nature. I will be exploring the ideas of social ecology and communalism/democratic confederalism that are mainly inspired by Murray Bookchin and Abdullah Öcalan. Bookchin: “Social Ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep seeded social problems.”

Sources/ Inspiration so far:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-toward-an-ecological-society.a4.pdf

http://www.freeocalan.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Abdullah-%C3%96calan-Demokratischer-Konf%C3%B6deralismus.pdf

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-social-ecology-and-communalism.a4.pdf

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-crisis-in-the-ecology-movement.a4.pdf

https://www.graswurzel.net/gwr/1998/10/libertarer-kommunalismus-fur-einsteigerinnen/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm5tpQp6sT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqYcsK2-i8&list=PLKfcNvjHlFpA-qi9fZCjkdXdJc87bfOEE&index=47

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dA1Khn4jo&t=19s

https://twitter.com/InstSocEcology

https://twitter.com/InstSocEcology/status/1264580042996105216