LMN is delighted to announce our third Resisting Mining Book Club of 2025 with guest speaker Iokiñe Rodriguez, who will be speaking about her co-edited collection Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures (Pluto Press, 2023).
About the book:
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,” co-edited by Iokiñe Rodriguez, Mariana Walter and Leah Temper, 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.
Iokiñe will give an introductory lecture which will be followed by a Q&A. You do not need to have read the book to attend this meeting. However, if you want to purchase a copy or read an extract, all registered attendees will be sent a discount code and materials.
About the author:
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), her work focuses on issues of local knowledge, power, environmental justice, equity and intercultural dialogue.
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