Just GLOBE Book

Socioecological Transformations confronts dominant framings of transformation
that either remain apolitical and ahistorical, or overemphasizes the structural
causes, while bypassing the ontological roots of the present-day socioecological
violence and destruction. It challenges the technocratic and structuralist tendencies
that either reduce transformation to policy tweaks, or to social movements and
activism.
This volume reclaims socioecological transformations as a radical,
justice-centred theory-praxis. By connecting the structural and the ontological
roots of the colonial-racial-capitalist system of oppression, the book exposes
how materialist-dualist ontology and associated worldviews uphold hierarchies
of worth, which in turn serve and uphold the colonial-racial-capitalist system of
oppression. In doing so, it widens the spectrum of viable responses to include in
addition to social movements and activism, those that unsettle the ontological
bases of our socioecological calamities—the human exceptionalism and the
illusion of separation. The fifteen chapters span diverse geographies, struggles, and
approaches, weaving together onto-epistemic inquiry with grounded transformative practices, movements and action. The contributions share the common focus on justice as both motivation and a guiding principle for transformations. The book calls for transformation where being, knowing, and doing are reimagined in relational, life-affirming terms.
A vital resource for students, academics, activists inspired by political ecology,
feminist studies, decolonial and relational approaches, social movements, and
transformations, but also practitioners and policy actors seeking to engage
transformation beyond surface-level solutions. Socioecological Transformations
invites readers to embrace complexity, plurality, along the paradoxes that
transformations entail, while building solidarities across polarized strategies,
ontologies and worldviews