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An INRS professor looks at citizen initiatives to address the climate crisis and their impact on society.
Ruelle verte à Montréal. Photo : INRS
Professor Sophie L. Van Neste, a specialist in political action, climate, and inequality, has just published Transitions socioécologiques et milieux de vie with the Presses de l’Université de Montréal (PUM). The researcher based at the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre also holds the Canada Research Chair in Urban Climate Action.
Professor Van Neste co-edited this new reference book alongside professors Patrice Melé of the University of Tours and Corinne Larrue of the Université Paris-Est Créteil.
Studying everyday efforts towards the socio-ecological transition
Against the backdrop of a global climate crisis, the book explores the connection between citizen efforts to address environmental issues and their impact on current policies.
Through its eight chapters, this new publication analyzes citizen initiatives in line with the social-ecological transition, such as eco-neighbourhoods, greening projects, and alternative housing communities.
“A number of citizen initiatives are seeking to adjust living environments in response to the climate crisis. These efforts to transform everyday life represent varying levels of politicization and changes to the way people approach public action. That’s what we wanted to explore in this collective work.”
Sophie L. Van Neste, INRS professor
Some fifteen researchers, sociologists, urban planners, geographers, and anthropologists from the French-speaking world have pooled their expertise to further the discussion.
Thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, Transitions socioécologiques et milieux de vie will be of interest to researchers, activists, and field workers alike.
About the book
Transitions socioécologiques et milieux de vie was published by the Presses de l’Université de Montréal in May 2024.
This new publication is the latest addition to the Action politique [political action] collection, which brings together interdisciplinary works that analyze alternative imaginaries, social movements, and protest politics.
The book is also available as part of PUM’s Libre accès [open access] collection, so it can be downloaded in digital format free of charge.
The content was produced by the three co-editors, Corinne Larrue (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Patrice Melé (University of Tours), and Sophie L. Van Neste (INRS), and by René Audet (UQAM), Rémi Barbier (National School for Water and Environmental Engineering of Strasbourg), Victor Bailly, Laurence Bherer (Université de Montréal), Claudia Cirelli (University of Tours), Geneviève Cloutier (Université Laval), François-Joseph Daniel (National School for Water and Environmental Engineering of Strasbourg), Rémi Eliçabe (Groupe Recherche Action), Amandine Guilbert (Groupe Recherche Action), Yannis Lemery (Groupe Recherche Action), Antoine Fontaine (CNRS), Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University), and Élie Jalbert (Concordia University).
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