Millennial Movements - Positive Social Change in Urban Costa Rica

In these brief and accessible case studies, Costa Rican millennial leaders draw from global solutions to address local problems, inviting students of these emerging social movements to apply similar strategies to their communities at home.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Placemaking, Community-Building, and Appropriation of Public Space
3. Urban Environmental Sustainability and Eradication of Sexism
4. Growers’ Markets, Local Foods, and Sustainable Business Models
5. A Pay-it-Forward Strategy to Combat Food Insecurity
6. Successful Offshoots of a Supposedly Failed Movement
7. LGBTQ+ Activism in the Long Term
8. An Invitation to Action
References

About the author

By Karen Stocker

Summary

In these brief and accessible case studies, Costa Rican millennial leaders draw from global solutions to address local problems, inviting students of these emerging social movements to apply similar strategies to their communities at home.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Stocker
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781487588670
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-8867-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories