More powerful together : conversations with climate activists and Indigenous land defenders / Jen Gobby.

More powerful together : conversations with climate activists and Indigenous land defenders / Jen Gobby.

By
Gobby, Jen, 1976-

Publication Date
2020

Publication Information
Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Publishing,

Physical Description
x, 239 p.

Subject Term
Environmentalism.
 
Environmentalists.
 
Traditional ecological knowledge.
 
Human ecology -- Canada.

Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary
How can social movements help bring about large-scale systems change? This is the question Jen Gobby sets out to answer in More Powerful Together. As an activist, Gobby has been actively involved with climate justice, anti-pipeline, and Indigenous land defense movements in Canada for many years. As a researcher, she has sat down with folks from these movements and asked them to reflect on their experiences with movement building. Bringing their incredibly poignant insights into dialogue with scholarly and activist literature on transformation, Gobby weaves together a powerful story about how change happens. In reflecting on what's working and what's not working in these movements, taking inventory of the obstacles hindering efforts, and imagining the strategies for building a powerful movement of movements, a common theme emerges: relationships are crucial to building movements strong enough to transform systems. Indigenous scholarship, ecological principles, and activist reflections all converge on the insight that the means and ends of radical transformation is in forging relationships of equality and reciprocity with each other and with the land. It is through this, Gobby argues, that we become more powerful together.

Language
English

ISBN
9781773632261


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall Number
Corner BrookAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous333.72 G53
Grand Falls-Windsor - HarmsworthAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous333.72 G53
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - MelvilleAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous333.72 G53
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous333.72 G53