Global sustainability and justice can only be achieved through something like the inspiring Transition Towns movement, but thought needs to be given to key issues or the movement might fail to achieve its goals, suggests TED TRAINER. Unless the movement works to replace consumer society it will ...
Transition Towns (also known as Transition network or Transition Movement) is a movement that was created by Louise Rooney and popularized by Rob Hopkins. It was founded in Kinsale, Ireland and was then spread to Totnes, England by environmentalist Rob Hopkins during 2005 and 2006. The aim of...
Transition Towns – a community movement in response to climate change – is used as a test-case of these ideas.doi:10.1080/09644016.2010.518677Molly Scott-CatoCardiff School of ManagementJean HillierrnSchool of ArchitectureRoutledgeEnvironmental Politics...
The first Transition Town was created in Totnes, UK, in 2005, and there are now Transition Towns worldwide. Using qualitative research methods, we explore the understudied affective, normative, and religio-ethical motivations of those engaged in the Transition Movement located in Totnes. Our ...
The two jurists addressed the convention of more than 1,000 lawyers at an uncertain moment for the conservative legal movement, with many establishment figures associated with the Federalist Society unsure of their place in the incoming Trump administration. While much of the society’s membership ...
The two jurists addressed the convention of more than 1,000 lawyers at an uncertain moment for the conservative legal movement, with many establishment figures associated with the Federalist Society unsure of their place in the incoming Trump administration. While much of the society’s membership ...
Transition Townssocial justicedisaster imaginariesUnited StatesUsing ethnographic data gathered from more than two years of fieldwork in a rural Vermont 'Transition Town' 鈥 a social movement oriented toward building resilience 鈥 this article examines how the conceptual groundwork of 'resilience' ...
Social movement theory . Societal change . Transition studies Both scholars and the political elite are often taken by surprise when ostensibly stable and subordinate populations suddenly shift to mass defiance and open rebellion. Social uprisings and collective mobilizations often come suddenly and ...
Harris and Sadler argue that the famous South Texas revolt of 1915–1916 was a trans-border plot orchestrated by none other than Mexican President Venus-tiano Carranza as opposed to a liberation movement, a contention based on extremely limited and circumstantial historical evidence and for which th...
“transition towns” movement (Hopkins, 2008; Bailey et al., 2010), to the high-tech or “smart technology” imaginaries of “green growth” (UNEP, 2011) and “natural capitalism” (Hawken et al., 1999). It is relevant to give attention to the ways in which the concept of transition ...