Book Launch - Just Transformations

Social Justice Centre - Centre de justice sociale

Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures

SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation, 1400 de Maisonneuve West, Boulevard De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montréal, QC, Canada

This is a launch and celebration of the book <a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344775/just-transformations/" title="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344775/just-transformations/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures</a> (Pluto Press), edited by Iokiñe Rodríguez, Mariana Walter and Leah Temper.This event will feature presentations and Q&A by Leah Temper, co-editor of the book, and Jen Gobby who contributed a chapter on transformative movements in so-called Canada. We may be joined by other co-authors as well.The event will also include time for mingling and interactive art activities.There will be copies of the book available for sale at thee event.The <a href="https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77032" title="https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77032" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">e-book is also available here for free</a>.Join usRemotely: <a href="https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdeGurTwjHtGWQEnwOXllVW7GKSBahphD" title="https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdeGurTwjHtGWQEnwOXllVW7GKSBahphD" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Register on zoom</a>In person: Concordia's SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation, Room LB-145, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, QC H3G 1M8 (J.W. McConnell Building).Snacks provided.Childcare is provided. Please contact Emma at emma.harake@concordia.ca if you would to register for childcare for the eventThe space is accessible to people with diverse mobility needs.More info : <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/381117551511993" title="https://www.facebook.com/events/381117551511993" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Facebook Event</a> <h3>About the book:</h3>Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures (Pluto Press), edited by Iokiñe Rodríguez, Mariana Walter and Leah Temper, with contributors from all around the world.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 utilise 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 conceptualisation of a just transformation that focuses on the changes that communities themselves are trying to produce.

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