Research
Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: Christopher Lyon
1. Brief Introduction of your Work
My work explores the social dimensions of resilience, adaptation and transformation. To date I have mostly focused on community resilience and the cultural and other processes that communities use to navigate challenge and change. I’m very interested in how people and groups understand
Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: Juan del Río
Could you give us a brief introduction to your work?
Since 2008 I have been working to develop community projects around sustainable living, local resilience and systems change. I have worked in several countries and with different organisations as a trainer, facilitator, designer, writer and researcher. Since 2012 I have
Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: in Portobello – Justin Kenrick
Justin, could you give us a brief introduction to your work:
I am an activist anthropologist working for forest peoples’ land rights in Africa (mostly in Kenya and DRC) in my work for the Forest Peoples Programme. I also work for community resilience in Scotland.
My work in Africa is
Tom Henfrey unveils ‘Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation’
“I’m Tom Henfrey. I consider myself a practitioner and activist within the Transition and Permaculture movements. With a main professional background as a researcher I’ve often made research the main way I contribute to these movements: navigating the boundary between research and practical action in Transition, which I’
Celebrating the life of Dr. David Fleming.
Last night at Schumacher College, Shaun Chamberlin presented an event celebrating the life of Dr. David Fleming and the publication of his books Lean Logic: a dictionary for the future and how to survive it, and Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy.
Exploring Transitions in Wuppertal
The day after the 10th anniversary of the Unleashing of Transition Town Totnes (has it really been that long?), I hopped on a succession of trains to head for Wuppertal, a city in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. Home to 350,000 people, it is sometimes called the