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

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’écologie politique – Au-delà de l’environnementalisme, 1994
• Au bout de l’Impasse à gauche – récits de vie militant et perspectives d’avenir, 2007

Further reading

• 1968 Memories and Legacies of a Global Revolt, edited by Phillipp Gassert & Martin Klimke, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. 2009
• Canada's 1960s by Bryan D.Palmer, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2009
• The Canadian Encyclopedia, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, 1988
• The Empire Within by Sean Mills, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2010
• Keeping to the Marketplace by John C.Bacher, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993
• Left, Left, Left: Personal Account of Six Protest Campaigns, 1945-65 by Peggy Duff, Allison & Busby, London, 1971, ISBN 0-85031-056-3
• The Milton-Park Affair – Canada’s Largest Citizen-Developer Confrontation by Claire Helman, Véhicule Press, Montreal, 1987
• Spying 101 – The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997, Steve Hewitt, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002

See also

• Montréal Écologique
• Our Generation

External links

• Black Rose Books
• Transnational Institute of Social Ecology
• Peace magazine article by Dimitrios Roussopoulos
• Reflections on the Occasion of Dimitri Roussopoulos’ 70th Birthday and Public Intellectuals