par Salomé Vallette | Avr 30, 2024 | ¤ Epistemic justice and inclusion, ¤ Equity and climate justice framework, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Anne-Sophie Bendwell
Citizen mobilization for the energy transition in so-called Quebec has been in full swing in recent years. One of the strategies of activists is to invest local political spaces. To facilitate this strategy, we analyzed the results of a focus group that then informed a literature search on the theme. In the light of these results, we propose avenues of reflection for the reciprocal conformation of the various actors involved in local politics.
par Salomé Vallette | Avr 15, 2024 | ¤ Communities and citizen initiatives, social movements, ¤ Community organizing, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Sylvain A. Lefèvre and David Grant-Poitras
Bâtiment 7 is a « collective autonomy factory » located in a working-class district of Montreal. By studying the micro-politics of its financing, we examine the articulation of its issues of sustainability, accessibility and economic democratization. Structural tensions emerge in reconciling all these objectives, but so do promising social innovations. Far from being a technical detail, financial empowerment puts the common good to the test – its boundaries, its resources, the links between its members and its collective architecture.
par Salomé Vallette | Avr 15, 2024 | ¤ Communities and citizen initiatives, social movements, ¤ Community organizing, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Lucie Morin, Sonia Racine, Denis Bourque, André-Anne Parent, René Lachapelle, Christian Jetté, Stéphane Grenier, Dominic Foisy, Sébastien Savard, Serigne Touba Mbacké Gueye, Geneviève Le Dorze-Cloutier, Ariane Hamel and Charlotte Goglio
In Quebec, a multitude of players work together to maintain and improve living conditions. Solid expertise has been built up in the field of community development. This collective intelligence could be put to good use in the fight against the climate crisis. Qualitative research carried out in 8 territories in Quebec aims to understand how territorial development approaches, especially those dedicated to social development, contribute to the collective efforts required to ensure the socio-ecological transition.
par Hélène Madenian | Avr 8, 2024 | ¤ Discrimination and cumulative inequalities, ¤ Energy, ¤ Equity and climate justice framework, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Stephen Williams and Andréanne Doyon
As the climate crisis grows, energy systems are transitioning to renewable and sustainable alternatives. However, these transitions often lead to injustice and inequities. Transitions research must better consider justice in its analysis. Drawing from environmental and energy justice literature, we consider justice for people, communities, and the non-living in transitions research through the development of an analytical framework. The framework provides reflective practice to support distributive, procedural, and recognition justice.
par Salomé Vallette | Mar 26, 2024 | ¤ Community organizing, ¤ Policy and governance, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Hélène Madénian, Sophie L. Van Neste, Andréanne Doyon and Ashley Armitage
This research focuses on the equity and justice approaches of the City of Vancouver and the City of Montreal in their climate plans, i.e. the definitions of equity and the concrete measures considered by the two cities. Identified as climate leaders, Vancouver and Montreal have targets in line with the Paris Agreement and are committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2050, and each published a new climate plan in 2020.
par Hélène Madenian | Mar 25, 2024 | ¤ Energy, ¤ Indigenous perspectives, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Fabienne Rioux-Gobeil
In response to the climate crisis, renewable energy projects are being developed around the world and mostly, on Indigenous traditional territories. In countries such as Canada and Australia, the questions of Indigenous national sovereignties are still unclear and unresolved which causes complex issues of unequal power relations. About energy security, resurgence and self-determination, the energy transition could be the promise of great opportunities for Indigenous peoples. However, to benefit from renewable energy projects, they have to be in a position to fairly defend their interests.
par Salomé Vallette | Mar 11, 2024 | ¤ Action research and participatory approaches, ¤ Communities and citizen initiatives, social movements, ¤ Energy, ¤ Epistemic justice and inclusion, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Laurence Brière, Guillaume Moreau, Maude Prud’homme, Isabel Orellana, Marie-Ève Marleau, Martine Chatelain and Marie-Pier Lafrance
The eco-citizen movement for an energy transition is working to transform the dominant economic-energy system with a view to social justice and respect for the environment. By collaborating with stakeholders in this mobilization as part of an action-research project, we raised the epistemic justice issues inherent in this political project, and attempted to create spaces for reciprocal training, highlighting the diversity of types of knowledge. An innovative conceptual framework for energy justice was proposed, taking into account the very concrete realities of eco-citizen struggles and initiatives.
par Salomé Vallette | Mar 1, 2024 | ¤ Action research and participatory approaches, ¤ Epistemic justice and inclusion, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Franck Scherrer and Jeanne Paré
For three years, the Chemins de transition initiative brought together the academic community and the driving forces of Quebec society in a forward-looking, participatory process to map out a trajectory towards more sober and resilient ways of living in the territory by 2042. This text summarizes the process, focusing on the role of social justice in the mobilization of knowledge about the future.
par Hélène Madenian | Déc 13, 2022 | ¤ Policy and governance, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Marie-Luc Arpin and Sébastien Gambs
In the face of massive data flows, urban dynamics are being (re)shaped in depth. Urban climate action can no longer be conceived independently of digital social dynamics. It also involves paradoxes related to data security and the rebound effect.
par Hélène Madenian | Déc 9, 2022 | ¤ Discrimination and cumulative inequalities, ¤ Housing, ¤ Policy and governance, ¤ Socio-ecological transition, ¤ Transport and mobility
By Guillaume Lessard
Two major challenges to sustainable urbanization in North America are the environmental, social and economic impacts of urban sprawl, and the growing socio-economic inequalities associated with housing and mobility. Several government policies and programs address these issues. However, depending on how they are implemented, interventions in these sectors can lead to the reinforcement of structural and cultural barriers specific to urban sprawl, as well as the exacerbation of pre-existing socio-economic inequalities.
par Hélène Madenian | Déc 7, 2022 | ¤ Action research and participatory approaches, ¤ Community organizing, ¤ Policy and governance, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Ali Romdhani and René Audet
Ecological transition is a recent form of environmental discourse, the successor to sustainable development in many institutions. Transition discourse was initially conceived on an urban scale: the Transition Towns movement popularized citizen initiatives and local action. Later, in Quebec, municipal institutions took up the issue, and planning documents proliferated.
Here’s an overview of the transition discourse in Greater Montreal.
par Hélène Madenian | Déc 6, 2022 | ¤ Adaptation, vulnerabilities and inequalities, ¤ Community organizing, ¤ Discrimination and cumulative inequalities, ¤ Epistemic justice and inclusion, ¤ Greening, ¤ Socio-ecological transition, ¤ Transport and mobility
By Naomie Léonard, Hélène Madénian and Gabrielle Perras St-Jean
As part of its fight against climate change, taking gender into account from an intersectional perspective would enable the City of Montreal to avoid certain pitfalls, such as reproducing sexist biases and stereotypes, and exacerbating inequalities between genders and between women themselves. This text is a summary of the research that led to the publication of the Avis du Conseil des Montréalaises pour une transition écologique juste et féministe à Montréal November 2, 2022.
par Hélène Madenian | Déc 5, 2022 | ¤ Communities and citizen initiatives, social movements, ¤ Greening, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
By Alexandra Nadeau
In cities, a growing number of citizens are independently setting up initiatives to tackle climate change, such as greening, urban agriculture and alternative energy projects. Using the case study of Montreal’s Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie district, this research shows that local initiatives reflect the growing power of informal collective modes of action. Through local « green » actions, citizens produce direct, concrete and simple benefits, focused on their own personal gain.
par Hélène Madenian | Nov 3, 2022 | ¤ Greening, ¤ Policy and governance, ¤ Socio-ecological transition
Production of a summary directory in collaboration with the Borough of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie, in Montreal, to identify the areas and methods of intervention of the administration and its partners in terms of ecological transition. The Borough makes relatively little use of prescriptive standards and criteria, or of awareness-raising and incentives, even though these mechanisms have proven their effectiveness in triggering changes in behavior.
