Dan Chodorkoff
Daniel Chodorkoff, Ph.D., anthropology, New School for Social Research, is cofounder and former executive director of the ISE. He is an urban anthropologist and activist with special interests in community development and utopian studies, and has authored numerous articles on both subjects. Dr. Chodorkoff has been active in the Green movement and was a longtime faculty member at Goddard College. Dr. Daniel Chodorkoff is the co-founder (in 1974) and Executive Director of the Institute for Social Ecology. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty. Active in anti-war, social justice and ecological movement since the 1960's, Dr. Chodorkoff's interests include utopian social movements, community development, ecological politics, anarchist theory and history, and radical education. He has written numerous articles related to these interests and lectured for over 75 Colleges, universities, and movement groups around the world. He serves on the advisory board of the international journal of political ecology, Democracy and Nature, and is a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. His work focuses on how we can bring about an ecologically oriented, de-centralized, directly democratic society.Articles by Dan Chodorkoff
Redefining Development
ABSTRACT
The ecological society presupposes not only the rejection of the dominant development model, but even the very definition of development. Fundamental elements of a new definition of development must emphasize quality instead of quantity and the cultural particularities of people and their communities. This means that the communities themselves, with the active participation of their citizens, must reclaim control of the development process from the state and the market.
As the …
Harbinger Vol. 2 No. 1 — Editorial
Welcome to the first edition of our second volume of Harbinger, A Journal of Social Ecology. Harbinger is the latest in a long line of publications offered by the Institute for Social Ecology (ISE). With the second edition of Harbinger, we are resurrecting a journal that we published in the 80s. It is our hope that the current incarnation of Harbinger will continue in the tradition of its predecessors in bringing you, the reader, analysis relevant to the growing social ecology movement and …
Education for Social Change
The below lecture was presented by Dr. Daniel Chodorkoff, director of the Institute for Social Ecology, at the Annual Reunion of the Friends of the Modern School on September 20th, 1998. This article was originally printed in the Atlantic Anarchist Circle Newsletter, No.6 autumn 1998.
It’s really an honor to be here. It’s very humbling as well because, as Chris said, you all really do represent a legacy, a heritage, of freedom in education that is of more relevance and importance to the world today …
Social Ecology and Community Development
Reprinted from Renewing the Earth, John Clark, ed., (London: Green Print, 1990).
Social ecology, as developed by Murray Bookchin, brilliantly presents a comprehensive theoretical framework for analyzing the crises of modernity. It is perhaps the first such comprehensive approach since Marx, and suggests a reconstructive practice which holds promise of fundamentally transforming people’s relation to nature and to other people. The ultimate promise of social ecology is the reharmonization of culture and nature. A vital element in that profound transformation lies in the connection …
The Utopian Impulse: Reflections on a Tradition
The article originally appeared in Harbinger: The Journal of Social Ecology Vol. 1 No. 1, winter 1983.
The ecosphere is threatened to a degree unprecedented in humanity’s tenure on the planet. The rupture with the natural world is symptomatic of and a causal factor in the breakdown of social relations. The consciousness …
