Permafrost melts, desert cities boil, inland lakes dry up; but Waltham too feels the pinch. Adverse manmade climate change is seeping into basements everywhere, and a wonderful new research project, “Building Collective Resilience via Collective Memory” (that website launches very soon) counts some of the ways.
John is joined by two Brandeis colleagues who spearheaded the project and supplied some of the local interviews that bring climate change dynamics vividly to life. Rachel McKane is Assistant Professor of Sociology with interests in community-based approaches to environmental justice through networks of solidarity and mutual aid, and articles in such journals as Environmental Research Letters, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sociology, and Local Environment.
Danielle Jacques is at work on a dissertation exploring the social and spatial dynamics of the renewable energy transition. We also hear from Mark and from Colleen (about peaches!) in this episode.
Mentioned in the episode
Follow the project’s growth at Building Collective Resilience via Collective Memory. Or read about its origins in a local newspaper story here.
John Dittmer, Local People
Victorian neighborhood class proximity maps of London include the famous Booth “poverty maps.”
Yuki Kato, Gardens of Hope.
Bill McKibben, Oil and Honey.
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