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Janet Biehl (born September 4, 1953) is an American author, copyeditor, translator, and artist. She authored several books and articles associated with social ecology, the body of ideas developed and publicized by Murray Bookchin.
Jan 13, 2016 · Janet Biehl, author of Ecology or Catastrophe, shares her views on the Rojava revolution and its relation to her late companion Murray Bookchin. She discusses her visits to the autonomous cantons, the role of women, and the challenges of democratic confederalism.
Jun 9, 2023 · Janet Biehl discusses the radical practice of decentralized democracy among the Kurds of Rojava.
May 31, 2023 · Janet Biehl is one of the leading libertarian socialist writers in the country. For several decades, she was the partner and collaborator of the late political theorist Murray Bookchin, who stood, in the words of the Village Voice, “at the pinnacle of the genre of utopian social criticism.”
Sep 19, 2022 · Janet Biehl’s new book, Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS, chronicles her time spent in Rojava—a Kurdish-inhabited area of northeastern Syria consisting of self-governing bodies, officially known as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)—first as an activist, and later as a ...
Janet Biehl, an independent scholar and artist, collaborated with the social theorist Murray Bookchin for his last nineteen years (1987–2006). After his death, she wrote his biography. Bookchin’s writings influenced an ideological transformation of the Kurdish freedom movement away from Marxism and statism and toward grassroots democracy ...
Aug 2, 2022 · Janet Biehl, a partner and biographer of Murray Bookchin, talks about her new book, Their Blood Got Mixed, which depicts the events and ideas of the Rojava Revolution in Syria. The book is a collaboration of water-coloured sketches and interviews with the participants of the revolution.
