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

    • Title:More powerful together : conversations with climate activists and Indigenous land defenders / Jen Gobby.
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    • Author/Creator:Gobby, Jen, 1976- author.
    • Published/Created:Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, [2020]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Environmentalism--Canada.
      Environmentalists--Canada.
      Traditional ecological knowledge--Canada.
      Ethnoecology--Canada.
      Human ecology--Canada.
    • Description:x, 239 pages ; 23 cm
    • 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."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Additional formats:Issued also in electronic formats.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781773632261 (softcover)
      1773632264 (softcover)
    • Contents:Thinking together about changing everything
      The climate and inequality crises in Canada
      Understanding the crises
      Envisioning the alternatives
      How we get from here to there
      Taking stock of where we are at and what stands in our way
      Overcoming the barriers and building more powerful movements.
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