Linking Activism: Ecology, Social Justice, and Education for Social Change

ISBN-13: 9780415974592 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 296 str.

Morgan Gardner

Opis

This revealing book explores the work of thirty activists in their attempts to address social justice issues related to their environmental advocacy (an activist practice hereby coined 'linking activism'). It questions reductionist orientations of self and agency by making visible activists' multiple sites of commitment and agency towards, for instance, environmental protection, gender equality, anti-racism and / or First Nations rights. The book maps some of the terrain of linking activist practice. Specifically, the need for broad and complex conceptualizations of self and agency is taken up and examined, forms of environmental discrimination and injustice are explained, the challenges of being a 'linking messenger' are discussed and four expressions of linking activism are developed: * Living Democracy through Linking Activism * Linking Activism as a Catalyst for Organizational Change * Constituency-Oriented Linking Activism * Common Cause Linking Activism. importance of utilizing the messiness and complexity of our experiences, values and identities in working towards the creation of socially just and ecologically viable communities. Moreover, the concept of 'linking activism' gives educators, change-makers, and theorists concerned about environmental degradation and social injustice the opportunity to examine the challenge and promise of holistic and integrative approaches to social change and transformation.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Envisioning Linking Activism: Agency and Self in the Creation of Ecologically Healthy and Socially Just Communities  Part I: Linking Environmental Protection and Social Justice: Issues of Theory and Discourse  2. We Are Not Only In It Together, We Are Also In It Differently: Ecological Burden and Social Location   3. Recounting Complex Stories: Limits and Possibilities of Narrative Frames  4. The Linking Activist as Linking Messenger: Challenges to the Communication of Social
Justice-Ecological Connections  Part II: Exploring Forms of Linking Activist Practice  5. Living Democracy through Linking Activism: Fighting for the Rights of Information and Participation in Government Environmental Decisions  6. Linking Activism as a Catalyst for Organizational Change: The Challenge and Promise of Environmental Organizations  7. Constituency-Oriented Linking Activism: Voicing Environmental Concerns from the Realities of Socially Marginalized Constituencies  8. Common Cause Linking Activism: Building Alliances between Environmental and Social Justice Sectors  Part III: Linking Activism: Capacities, Approaches and Skills  9. The Journey: Bearing Witness, Questioning, Reflecting Critically and Holistically, and Demythologizing  10. More on the Journey: Translation, Trust Building, Hope, and Emergence  11. The Unending Journey

O autorze

Morgan Gardner is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.