Eleanor Finley - Social Ecology: A "next system" in the works
Next System Speaker Series: Eleanor Finley
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Van Metre Hall (formerly Founders Hall), #118
Eleanor Finley is the final Next System Speaker for 2025.
Please be certain to register here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/eleanor-finley-social-ecology-a-next-system-in-the-works?source=direct_link&
How can we harness society's potential to change the trajectory of the climate crisis? So many of us feel helpless in the face of corporate environmental destruction, however, in Practicing Social Ecology (Pluto Press 2025) Eleanor Finley shows that there is an amazing well of untapped power in our communities, we just need to know how to use it. Drawing from her experience of working in democratic ecology movements from the revolution in Rojava to Barcelona's municipalist movement and beyond, she maps out how social ecologists, such as Murray Bookchin, have led inspirational struggles around climate and energy, agriculture and biotechnology, globalisation and economic inequality by developing assemblies, confederations, study groups, and permaculture projects.
Eleanor Finley is Director of Community Engaged Research and Action at Next System Studies GMU and an instructor at the Institute for Social Ecology (ISE) in Vermont. She has conducted ethnographic research on participatory democratic processes within movements such as the Kurdish liberation movement, energy and environmental justice, and degrowth. She has conducted dozens of workshops, talks, and lectures to diverse audiences in North America and Europe. Her PhD (May, 2025) is in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
You can order the book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346908/practicing-social-ecology/
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