Dimitrios Roussopoulos

Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a political activist, ecologist, writer, editor, publisher, community organizer, and public speaker. Educated in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at several Montreal and London universities, Roussopoulos has sought to keep himself free from any academic confinement, and apart from having taught for two years in the late sixties at a college that followed the progressive education philosophy of John Dewey, he has remained institutionally independent.

In 1969, Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos created a book publishing project known as Black Rose Books. The not–for–profit radical publisher published more than 500 books by authors from the social sciences, humanities, and particularly, politics, cultural studies, history, philosophy, sociology, social ecology and environmental and Urban issues. Active with and promoting the World Social Forum, Roussopoulos continues to advance the need for an extra–parliamentary opposition in Canada. His major interest has been seeing democracy from the bottom–up developed within the perspective of the social ecology of Murray Bookchin. In February—March 2012, he founded in Athens, the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology, a network of intellectual/activists working in various cities in Europe.

In 2018, he co–curated the exhibition Milton–Parc: How We Did It, presented at the Canadian Centre for Architecture from September 2018 to March 2019.



Bibliography

- add links to the ones in the Connexions Library English The Case for Participatory Democracy, co-edited with C. George Benello, 1970 The New Left in Canada, edited by Dimitri Roussopoulos, 1970 Political Economy of the State - Canada, Quebec, United States, edited by Dimitri Roussopoulos, 1973 Canada and Radical Social Change, edited by Dimitri Roussopoulos, 1973 Quebec and Radical Social Change, edited by Dimitri Roussopoulos, 1974 City and Radical Social Change, edited by Dimitri Roussopoulos, 1982 Our Generation against Nuclear War, edited by Dimitri Roussopoulos, 1983 1984 and after, co-edited Marsha Hewitt, 1984 Coming of World War Three, 1986 Radical Papers, 1986, Radical Papers 2, 1987, edited by Dimitri Roussopoulos, Anarchist Papers, 2001; Anarchist Papers 2, 1989; Anarchist Papers 3, 1990 edited by Dimitri Roussopoulos Dissidence - Essays against the Mainstream, 1992 Political Ecology; Beyond Environmentalism, 1993 Public Place - Citizen Participation in the Neighbourhood and the City, 1999 The New Left - Legacy and Continuity, edited by Dimitri Roussopoulos, 2007 Faith in Faithlessness - an anthology of atheism, edited by Dimitri Roussopoulos, 2008 The Rise of Cities, edited by and written by Dimitri Roussopoulos, 2012 Villages in Cities: Community Land Ownership, Cooperative Housing, and the Milton Park Story, co-edited with Joshua Hawley, 2019 French L'�cologie politique - Au-del� de l'environnementalisme, 1994 Au bout de l'Impasse � gauche - r�cits de vie militant et perspectives d'avenir, 2007 Adapted from an article in Wikipedia

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