Just Transformations
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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 of resistance movements 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.
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 of resistance movements 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?
Dr. Iokiñe Rodríguez 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), she focuses on issues of local knowledge, power, environmental justice, equity and intercultural dialogue.
Dr. 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 worldwide, 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.
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 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 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 worldwide, 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.
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 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.
Introduction – Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada), Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK), and Mariana Walter (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
Part I: Our approaches and methods to engage with transformations
1. Co-producing Knowledge for Environmental Justice: A Methodological Toolkit – Mariana Walter (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), Lena Weber (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) and Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada)
2. From Conflicts to Alternatives: Two Frameworks to Assess Just Transformations to Sustainability – Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK) and Ashish Kothari (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India)
Part II: Analysing Transformations From and With EJM
Section 1: Double Movements Against State and Market
3. Transformations on Fire: Double Movement of Anti-Coal Struggles in Aliağa, Turkey – Begüm Özkaynak (Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Ethemcan Turhan (KTH Environmental Humanities Lab, Stockholm, Sweden), Cem İskender Aydın (Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University, Turkey)
4. Games of Power in the Conquest of the South: Transformation Politics During and After the Power-Line Conflict in Canaima National Park, Venezuela – Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK)
5. Waste, Privatization, and Social Change in Lebanon – Rania Masri (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Section 2: From Individual to Institutional Transformations
6. Fighting Against a Prison and for the Keelbeek land: An Analysis of the Individual and Collective Empowerment Within the Resistance Movement Against the Brussels Mega-Prison Project – Jerome Pelenc (University of Toulouse, France)
7. Mapping Mining Struggles in Argentina: Analysing the Keys of a Success Story – Mariana Walter (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), Lucrecia Wagner (CONICET, Argentina).
8. Women Pastoralist and the Struggle for Transformation in Raika, Rajasthan – Meenal Tatpati and Shruti Ajit (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India)
Section 3: Enacting Counter-Hegemonic Alternative Politics, Economics and World Views
9. Lomerio: Indigenous Territorial Autonomy as Transformative Force for Environmental Justice – Mirna Inturias (Nur University, Bolivia) and Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK)
10. Korchi, India: From Resisting Mining to Developing a Self-Government – Neema Pathak, Shrishtee Bajpai, Mukesh Shende and Mahesh Rau (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India)
11. Transformative Strategies Developed by Environmental Justice and Indigenous Land Defense Movements in Canada – Jen Gobby (McGill University, Canada) and Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada)
12. Sandhani: Transformation Amongst Handloom Weavers of Kachchh, India – Kalpavriksh and Khamir
Part III: Lessons from Ground Up Transformations
13. Lessons from the Acknowledge In Depth Case Studies – Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK) Mirna Inturias (Nur University, Bolivia), Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada) and Mariana Walter (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
14. Lessons from the Most Transformative Struggles Worldwide through the EJ Atlas – Begüm Özkaynak (Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Turkey), and Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada).
15. Towards a Just Transformations Theory – Ashish Kothari (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India), Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada), Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK), Adrian Martin, Begüm Özkaynak (Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Mariana Walter (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), Ethemcan Turhan (KTH Environmental Humanities Lab, Stockholm, Sweden), Rania Masri (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Mirna Inturias (Nur University, Bolivia), Neema Pathak (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India), Shrishtee Bajpai (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India), Jen Gobby (McGill University, Canada), Jerome Pelenc (University of Toulouse, France), Meenal Tatpati (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India) and Shruti Ajit (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India)
Part I: Our approaches and methods to engage with transformations
1. Co-producing Knowledge for Environmental Justice: A Methodological Toolkit – Mariana Walter (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), Lena Weber (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) and Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada)
2. From Conflicts to Alternatives: Two Frameworks to Assess Just Transformations to Sustainability – Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK) and Ashish Kothari (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India)
Part II: Analysing Transformations From and With EJM
Section 1: Double Movements Against State and Market
3. Transformations on Fire: Double Movement of Anti-Coal Struggles in Aliağa, Turkey – Begüm Özkaynak (Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Ethemcan Turhan (KTH Environmental Humanities Lab, Stockholm, Sweden), Cem İskender Aydın (Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University, Turkey)
4. Games of Power in the Conquest of the South: Transformation Politics During and After the Power-Line Conflict in Canaima National Park, Venezuela – Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK)
5. Waste, Privatization, and Social Change in Lebanon – Rania Masri (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Section 2: From Individual to Institutional Transformations
6. Fighting Against a Prison and for the Keelbeek land: An Analysis of the Individual and Collective Empowerment Within the Resistance Movement Against the Brussels Mega-Prison Project – Jerome Pelenc (University of Toulouse, France)
7. Mapping Mining Struggles in Argentina: Analysing the Keys of a Success Story – Mariana Walter (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), Lucrecia Wagner (CONICET, Argentina).
8. Women Pastoralist and the Struggle for Transformation in Raika, Rajasthan – Meenal Tatpati and Shruti Ajit (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India)
Section 3: Enacting Counter-Hegemonic Alternative Politics, Economics and World Views
9. Lomerio: Indigenous Territorial Autonomy as Transformative Force for Environmental Justice – Mirna Inturias (Nur University, Bolivia) and Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK)
10. Korchi, India: From Resisting Mining to Developing a Self-Government – Neema Pathak, Shrishtee Bajpai, Mukesh Shende and Mahesh Rau (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India)
11. Transformative Strategies Developed by Environmental Justice and Indigenous Land Defense Movements in Canada – Jen Gobby (McGill University, Canada) and Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada)
12. Sandhani: Transformation Amongst Handloom Weavers of Kachchh, India – Kalpavriksh and Khamir
Part III: Lessons from Ground Up Transformations
13. Lessons from the Acknowledge In Depth Case Studies – Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK) Mirna Inturias (Nur University, Bolivia), Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada) and Mariana Walter (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
14. Lessons from the Most Transformative Struggles Worldwide through the EJ Atlas – Begüm Özkaynak (Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Turkey), and Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada).
15. Towards a Just Transformations Theory – Ashish Kothari (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India), Leah Temper (McGill University, Canada), Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK), Adrian Martin, Begüm Özkaynak (Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Mariana Walter (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), Ethemcan Turhan (KTH Environmental Humanities Lab, Stockholm, Sweden), Rania Masri (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Mirna Inturias (Nur University, Bolivia), Neema Pathak (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India), Shrishtee Bajpai (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India), Jen Gobby (McGill University, Canada), Jerome Pelenc (University of Toulouse, France), Meenal Tatpati (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India) and Shruti Ajit (Kalpavriksh Action Group, India)
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