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Social Movements for Environmental Justice and Local Governance
Social Movements for Environmental Justice and Local Governance
Abstract Submissions Closed
Saturday, 27 February 2021: 16:00-17:30
Location:
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change (host committee)
Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
How does transformation towards social, economic, and environmental justice happen? What lessons can be learnt from people's movements against extractivism and the capitalist 'growth' economy, gender injustice and other forms of inequity and exploitation, deprivation from basic needs, and authoritarian political regimes? This session will examine. on the basis of an understanding of cases of movements in several parts of the world, the following: how and why struggles against injustice arise, what are the major driving forces, what kinds of transformations along multiple dimensions (social, economic, political, cultural, ecological, ethical) take place, whether these transformations are complementary or contradictory with each other, and what key lessons can be learnt that may be globally relevant. Two frameworks for understanding such change, the Conflict Transformation Framework (Grupo Confluencias and University of East Anglia) and and the Alternatives Transformation Format (Kalpavriksh), developed by researchers and activists and tested in the field in some of the struggles, can be used as a basis for discussion. Also to be featured is the 'Theory of Transformation' being developed as part of a global project on Academic-Activist Co-generation of Knowledge on Environmental Justice (www.acknowlej.org).
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