Quiet Activism: Climate Action at the Local Scale

Steele, Wendy; Hillier, Jean; MacCallum, Diana; Byrne, Jason; Houston, Donna

This book focuses on the potential and possibilities for socially innovative responses to the climate emergency at the local scale. Climate change has intensified the need for communities to find creative and meaningful ways to address the sustainability of their environments. The authors focus on the creative and collaborative ways local- scale climate action reflects the extra-ordinary measures taken by ordinary people. This includes critical engagement with the ways in which novel social practices and partnerships emerge between people, organisations, institutions, governance arrangements and eco-systems. 

The book successfully highlights the transformative power of socially innovative activities and initiatives in response to the climate crisis; and critically explores how different individuals and groups undertake climate action as ‘quiet activism’ – the embodied acts of collective disruption, subversion, creativity and care at the local scale.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2021-08-11

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030787264

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78727-1

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 166