Yavor Tarinski is an independent researcher, activist and author. He participates in social movements around the Balkans, as well as in transnational organizations, dedicated to the production of grassroots knowledge. He is a member of the administrative board of the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology, of the editorial board of the Greek digital journal & publications Aftoleksi, as well as bibliographer at Agora International. Among his books are “Concepts for Democratic and Ecological Society” and “Reclaiming Cities: Revolutionary Dimensions of Political Participation”.
Dweller-managed architecture as the basis of democratic and ecological urbanism
According to the underlying form of social organization, architecture can promote individualist lifestyles, servitude, submission, or it can encourage communal solidarity, freedom, and dignity.
March 11, 2024
From citizens of nations to citizens of cities
As philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis underlines, the equality among citizens of Ancient Athens was not based on the granting of equal passive ‘rights’, but active general participation in public affairs.
February 21, 2024
Beyond and against homogenisation: Advancing diversity through Democratic Confederalism
Although homogeneity has been advanced by a societal system that presents itself as the only one possible and a product of a determinist evolutionary process, it can still be reversed so that diversity can flourish once again.
February 1, 2024
Direct democracy and the need for physical space
The project of direct democracy, being a socio-political system that is incompatible with the Nation-State-Capital complex, implies radical change to people’s relations to physical space.
December 15, 2023
The Importance of Political Decentralization: Reflections from the Balkans
Everything about the dominant modern form of social organization tends towards centralization. Capitalism and the nation-state tends to take power away from local communities and concentrate it in the hands of narrow elites.
November 1, 2023
Towards Strategies for Social Change beyond Domination
In this sense, a post-capitalist and post-domination society will require its own set of institutions, whose creation must begin from today.
September 7, 2023
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