‘Hugely important … Drawing on grassroots alternatives from across the world, the book offers a vital guide’ Ian Scoones, Professor, University of Sussex
‘A fantastic collection that illustrates that just transformations are already being imagined and implemented on the ground’ David Schlosberg, Professor, University of Sydney
‘A splendid book co-produced by an impressive international group of academics and activists … Optimistic and inspiring’ Joan Martinez-Alier, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat humanity faces today. The need for a radical societal transformation in the interests of social justice and ecological sustainability has never been greater. But where can we turn to find systemic alternatives?
From India, Turkey, Belgium and Lebanon, to Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela and Canada, Just Transformations looks to local environmental struggles for the answers. With each case study grounded in the social movements and specific politics of the region in question, this volume investigates the role that resistance movements play in bringing about sustainable transformations, the strategies and tools they utilize to overcome barriers, and how academics and grassroots activists can collaborate effectively.
The book provides a toolkit for scholar-activists who want to build transformative visions with communities. Interrogating each case study for valuable lessons, the contributors develop a conceptualization of a just transformation that focuses on the changes that communities themselves are trying to produce.
Dr Iokiñe Rodríguez is an Associate Professor on Environment and Development based at the School of Global Development at the University of East Anglia. Dr Leah Temper is an ecological economist, scholar activist and environmental health campaigner currently based at the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Dr Mariana Walter is a Political Ecologist and Ecological Economist based at the Institute of Sciences and Technologies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Daftar Isi
Introduction
Part I: Our approaches and methods for engaging with transformations
1. Co-production of Knowledge for Environmental Justice: Key Lessons, Challenges and Approaches in the ACKnowl-EJ Project (by Lena Weber, Mariana Walter, Leah Temper and Iokiñe Rodríguez)
2. A Conversation on Radical Transformation Frameworks: From Conflicts to Alternatives (by Arpita Lulla, Iokiñe Rodríguez, Mirna Inturias and Ashish Kothari)
Part I: Analysing transformations from and with environmental justice movements
Section 1: Double Movements Against State and Market
3. ‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall’: A Reflection on Engaged Just Transformations Research under Turkey’s Authoritarian Populist Regime (by Begüm Özkaynak, Ethemcan Turhan, Cem İskender Aydın)
4. Games of Power in Conflicts over Extractivism in Canaima National Park, Venezuela (by Iokiñe Rodríguez and Vladimir Aguilar)
5. Lebanon and the ‘Trash Revolution’:- Constraints, Challenges, and Opportunities to Transformation: 2015 Onwards (by Rania Masri)
Section 2: From Individual to Institutional Transformations
6. Free the Keelbeek from the Prison! A Deep Analysis of the Individual and Collective Empowerment Within the Resistance Movement against the Brussels Mega-prison Project (by Jérôme Pelenc)
7. Raika Women Speak. (by Meenal Tatpati and Shruti Ajit)
8. Transformative Environmental Conflicts:- The Case of Struggles against Large-scale Mining in Argentina (by Mariana Walter and Lucrecia Wagner)
Section 3: Enacting Counter-hegemonic Alternative Politics, Economics and World views
9. The Monkoxi from Lomerío, Bolivia: On the Road to Freedom Through Nuxiaká Uxia Nosibóriki (by Mirna Inturias, Iokiñe Rodríguez, Miguel Aragón, Elmar Masay and Anacleto Peña)
10. On the Cusp:- Reframing Democracy and Well-Being in Korchi. (by Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee Bajpai and Mukesh Shende)
11. Transformative Strategies Forged on the Frontlines of Environmental Justice and Indigenous Land Defence Struggles in So-called Canada (by Jen Gobby and Leah Temper)
12. Sandhani: Transformation Among Handloom Weavers of Kachchh, India. (by Kalpavriksh and Khamir)
Part III: Lessons from ground up transformations
13. Towards a Just Transformations Theory. (by Ashish Kothari, Leah Temper, Iokiñe Rodríguez, Mariana Walter, Begüm Özkaynak, Rania Masri, Mirna Inturias, Adrian Martin, Ethemcan Turhan, Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee Bajpai, Jen Gobby, Jérôme Pelenc, Meenal Tatpati and Shruti Ajit)
14. Take-Aways for Environmental Justice Movements. (by Leah Temper, Mariana Walter and Iokiñe Rodríguez)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Tentang Penulis
Leah Temper is an ecological economist, scholar-activist and filmmaker based at Mc Gill University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is the founder and co-director of the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, an initiative mapping ecological conflicts and spaces of resistance around the world, and Research Associate for the Leadership for the Ecozoic program. She is currently Principal Investigator of the ACKnowl-EJ project (Activist-academic Co-production of Knowledge for Environmental Justice).
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