{"product_id":"just-transformations-grassroots-struggles-for-alternative-futures-paperback","title":"Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIoki Rodr刕uez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMariana Walter\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLeah Temper\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From India, Turkey, and Bolivia, to Venezuela, Canada, and Lebanon, \u003ci\u003eJust Transformations\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Ioki Rodr刕uez is Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. 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 area. As a researcher in the ACKnowl-EJ project (Activist-academic Co-production of Knowledge for Environmental Justice), her work focuses on issues of local knowledge, power, environmental justice, equity and intercultural dialogue. \u003cbr\u003e ​​​​​​​ \u003cbr\u003e 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 journals such as \u003ci\u003eSustainability Science, Global Environmental Change\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGeoforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcological Economics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLand Use Change\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLocal Environment\u003c\/i\u003e. She is currently the Scientific Project Manager for the Academic-Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice Project. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leah Temper is an ecological economist, scholar-activist and filmmaker based at McGill 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).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765132067104,"sku":"9780745344775","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a476261c64a2032508536d15387ddbbf.webp?v=1780262537","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/just-transformations-grassroots-struggles-for-alternative-futures-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}