Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures

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Dr. Iokiñe Rodríguez is Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. UK. She is co-founder of Grupo Confluencias a consortium of Latin American conflict transformation practitioners researchers and institutions that work on platforms for deliberation joint research and training in this topic. Her work on environmental conflict transformation focuses on issues of local history local knowledge power environmental justice equity and intercultural dialogue. She is researcher in the ACKnowl-EJ project (Activist-academic Co-production of Knowledge for Environmental Justice). Dr. Mariana Walter is a Political Ecologist and Ecological Economist based at the Institute of Sciences and Technologies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research has been published in books and international journals such as Sustainability Science Global Environmental Change Geoforum Ecological Economics Land Use Change and Local Environment. She is currently the Scientific Project Manager for the Academic-Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice Project. Dr. Leah Temper is an ecological economist scholar activist and filmmaker based at McGill University Montreal and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.  She is the founder and co-director of the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice an initiative mapping ecological conflicts and spaces of resistance around the world and Research Associate for the Leadership for the Ecozoic program. She is currently PI of the ACKnowl-EJ project (Activist-academic Co-production of Knowledge for Environmental Justice) which examines how transformative alternatives are born from resistance against extractivism.