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Written by the co-founder and former board president of a non-profit shared-use commercial kitchen, Understanding Just Sustainabilities from Within presents an intersectional analysis of CLiCK (Commercially Licensed Co-operative Kitchen), in order to explore what just sustainabilities can look and feel like from within and without.
Through a unique combination of autoethnography, participant observation, surveys, and secondary research, this book offers insights into CLiCK's micro and macro successes, failures, and unknowns in relation to its attempt to put the concept of just sustainabilities into daily practice, and praxis. Developing its practical analyses from a theoretical basis, this book does not focus on definitive answers, recognizing instead that the closest we can get to understanding just sustainabilities in praxis is through long-term collective struggle and ultimately love.¿
Researchers and educators who are interested in linking theory with practice, especially in relation to just sustainabilities and intersectionality, will appreciate the theoretical grounding, making it desirable for multiple social science classes. Additionally, those involved with the social justice, food justice, and just sustainabilities movements will benefit from the book's insights into best practices to address issues of social inequalities on the micro level, while also offering the benefits of a macro intersectional analysis.
List of contents
Foreword: Mark Winne Preface: CLiCK's Interfaith Land Blessing Introduction: Understanding a Socially Constructed World Through My Positionality
Part I: Understanding in Theory Chapter 1: Understanding Just Sustainabilities in Theory Chapter 2: Understanding Intersectionality in Theory Chapter 3: Overlapping Lenses: Insights into Practice
Part II: Understanding from Within and Without in Practice Chapter 4: Origins of CLiCK from Within and Without Chapter 5: Development of CLiCK from Within and Without Chapter 6: Institutionalization of CLiCK from Within and Without
Part III: Thresholds of Successes, Failures and Unknowns- Explorations in Praxis Chapter 7: Putting Just Sustainabilities and Intersectionality into Praxis? Chapter 8: Thresholds of Success... Chapter 9: Failures and Unknowns (thus far...) Conclusion:
Interconnections Now and Beyond...
About the author
Phoebe Godfrey is an Associate Professor in Residence of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Summary
Written by the co-founder and former board president of a non-profit shared-use commercial kitchen, this book presents an intersectional analysis of CLiCK (Commercially Licensed Co-operative Kitchen), in order to explore what just sustainabilities can look and feel like from within and without.
