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, and Bolivia, to Venezuela, Canada, and Lebanon, 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.
How can societies be transformed in the interests of environmental sustainability from the ground up?
Recenzijas
'A hugely important book, setting a radical agenda for societal transformation. Drawing on grassroots alternatives from across the world, the book offers a vital guide for both scholars and activists. Everyone committed to just transformations for sustainability should read this book now!' -- Ian Scoones, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex 'A fantastic collection that illustrates that just transformations are already being imagined and implemented on the ground. The authors offer an important, creative example of genuine scholar-activism keenly focused issues of justice, power, and the transformative potential of EJ.' -- David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics and Director, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney 'A splendid collective book co-produced by an impressive international group of twenty-five socio-environmental academics and activists ... focusing both on the alternatives that are born from the resistance to extractivism or pollution, and on sustainable practices such as community textile production. Building on detailed knowledge of the local protagonists and issues, this optimistic, inspiring book jumps scales to national and international dimensions.' -- Joan Martinez-Alier, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona 'This is an indispensable book that brings together the theory and practice of environmental justice. The contributions offer different ways for the concrete materialization of the changes needed for just transformations for alternative futures and make a rich account of methods for mutual learning between social movements and academia. A valuable resource for those committed to achieving environmental justice in the 21st century.' -- Gabriela Merlinsky, Instituto Gino Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 Iokińe Rodrķguez)
2. A Conversation on Radical Transformation Frameworks: From Conflicts to
Alternatives (by Arpita Lulla, Iokińe Rodrķguez, 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 skender Aydn)
4. Games of Power in Conflicts over Extractivism in Canaima National Park,
Venezuela (by Iokińe Rodrķguez 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 Jérōme 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 Lomerķo, Bolivia: On the Road to Freedom Through Nuxiakį
Uxia Nosibóriki (by Mirna Inturias, Iokińe Rodrķguez, Miguel Aragón, Elmar
Masay and Anacleto Peńa)
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,
Iokińe Rodrķguez, Mariana Walter, Begüm Özkaynak, Rania Masri, Mirna
Inturias, Adrian Martin, Ethemcan Turhan, Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee
Bajpai, Jen Gobby, Jérōme Pelenc, Meenal Tatpati and Shruti Ajit)
14. Take-Aways for Environmental Justice Movements. (by Leah Temper, Mariana
Walter and Iokińe Rodrķguez)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Dr. Iokińe Rodrķguez is Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. UK. She is co-founder of Grupo Confluencias, a consortium of Latin American conflict transformation practitioners, researchers and institutions that work on platforms for deliberation, joint research, and training in this topic. Her work on environmental conflict transformation focuses on issues of local history, local knowledge, power, environmental justice, equity and intercultural dialogue. She is researcher in the ACKnowl-EJ project (Activist-academic Co-production of Knowledge for Environmental Justice).
Dr. Mariana Walter is a Political Ecologist and Ecological Economist based at the Institute of Sciences and Technologies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research has been published in books and international journals such as Sustainability Science, Global Environmental Change, Geoforum, Ecological Economics, Land Use Change and Local Environment. She is currently the Scientific Project Manager for the Academic-Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice Project.
Dr. Leah Temper is an ecological economist, scholar activist and filmmaker based at McGill University, Montreal 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 PI of the ACKnowl-EJ project (Activist-academic Co-production of Knowledge for Environmental Justice) which examines how transformative alternatives are born from resistance against extractivism.
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