{"id":6765,"date":"2016-09-26T13:42:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T18:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social-ecology.org\/wp\/?page_id=6765"},"modified":"2023-03-26T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T16:34:32","slug":"brian-tokar-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/social-ecology.org\/wp\/brian-tokar-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Tokar: Educator, author, activist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brian Tokar’s books<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots \"\"<\/a>Solutions<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Co-edited with Tamra Gilbertson, from Routledge Books<\/a> (2020).<\/div>\n
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Climate Justice and Community Renewal<\/i> uniquely highlights the accounts of people who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists, activist-scholars, and many others. The book’s many contributors explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They also illustrate how a just transition toward a fossil-free economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water resources, better feed their communities, and implement new approaches to urban policy and energy democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis & Social Change\"TCJ<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

From New Compass Press<\/a> (2010, Revised edition 2014) Available from AK Press<\/a>, iTunes<\/a>, and Amazon.com.<\/p>\n

The outlook of Climate Justice offers a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. Toward Climate Justice<\/em> explains the case for Climate Justice and explores the evolution of climate justice as an emerging movement. The book explores the evolution of climate policy through various UN summits and US legislation, and also challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions. The concluding chapters explore utopian vs. apocalyptic outlooks in the movement and the contributions of social ecology.<\/p>\n

Stan Cox, a prolific author and research coordinator at the Land Institute<\/a> in Kansas, recently reviewed Toward Climate Justice <\/em><\/a>for the online journal, Green Social Thought. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Agriculture & Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal\"Ag-Food<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Co-edited with Fred Magdoff From Monthly Review Press (2010)<\/a><\/p>\n

The failures of \u201cfree-market\u201d capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis<\/em>, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars from around the world to explore the politics of growing food insecurity and the rise of global resistance. International contributors include Walden Bello, Miguel Altieri, Peter Rosset, Christina Schiavoni and many others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger\"Gene<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

From Toward Freedom<\/a> (2004)<\/p>\n

Seven international authors show how the interplay of trade policy, \u201cdevelopment\u201d politics and biotechnology increases dependency and hunger, while compromising the survival of traditional farmers and their communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering\"Redesigning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Zed Books (UK) and McGill-Queens University Press<\/a> (Canada, 2001)<\/p>\n

Twenty-six internationally respected critics offer their analysis of the issues, their social and ethical implications, and the stories behind the headlines that have brought genetic engineering to the forefront of public controversy worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Earth For Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash\"Earth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

South End Press, 1997<\/p>\n

Examines official, corporate-funded environmentalism and numerous grassroots alternatives. Traces the implications of the struggles of the 1990s for a renewed ecological movement in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Green Alternative: Creating an Ecological Future\"Green<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

R&E Miles\/New Society Publishers, 1992<\/p>\n

The first book to fully explore the emergence of grassroots Green politics in the US, first published in 1987, and revised in 1992.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Short biography<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Brian Tokar is an activist and author, and a long-time faculty and board member of the Institute for Social Ecology. He has served since 2008 as a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Brian is the author of The Green Alternative\u00a0<\/em>(1987, Revised 1992),\u00a0Earth for Sale\u00a0<\/em>(1997), and\u00a0Toward Climate Justice:\u00a0Perspectives on the\u00a0Climate Crisis and Social Change\u00a0<\/em>(2010, Revised 2014), and he has also edited three volumes on biotechnology and food issues. \u00a0His latest book is\u00a0Climate Justice\u00a0and Community Renewal:\u00a0Resistance and Grassroots Solutions\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge, 2020), an international collection on grassroots climate responses, coedited with\u00a0Tamra Gilbertson.\u00a0He was a founding board member of Vermont\u2019s\u00a0350.org\u00a0affiliate, 350Vermont, and served on that board for ten years. He has contributed to several recent international collections, including\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Routledge<\/em>\u00a0Handbook on the Climate Change Movement<\/em>\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0Handbook of Climate Justice<\/em>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0Climate Justice and the Economy<\/em>\u00a0(2018),\u00a0Social Ecology and Social Change<\/em>\u00a0(2015),\u00a0Globalism and Localization:\u00a0Emergent Solutions to Our Ecological and Social Crises<\/em>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0and\u00a0Pluriverse: The Post-Development Reader<\/em>\u00a0(2019).<\/p>\n

List of published articles (to be updated):\u00a0 Download<\/a>
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Recent videos<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On Global Warming and Climate Justice (Marshfield, Vermont, Spring 2016)
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