Social Movement Appreciation Project
In our rapidly destabilising world, it's clear that nothing will get better without large numbers of people working together. But social movements remain mysterious and under-studied creatures: the Social Movement Appreciation Project aims to shine a warm and loving light on today's many efforts at collective agency and system transformation.
Social Movement Appreciation Project
Nuclear weapons, families and community gardens
Movements bring people together, and some people bring movements together. Lynne Jamieson is a Professor of Sociology of Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh, and president of the British Sociological Association. She’s also a veteran of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). She’s also a trustee and organiser with a community garden.
In this latest sit-down on the haybales, Douglas gapes in wonder at the 70-year legacy of CND, featuring maybe the world’s longest-running protest encampment (Faslane Peace Camp), we discuss the changing status of The Family in the context of the polycrisis, and we get down to the details of community empowerment and liberation in a disadvantaged part of Edinburgh.
Outro music: And When I Rise, sung by Penny Stone, adapted from the poem by Wendell Berry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxmcJTKs7M
(We sang a version of this at the camp’s song workshop)
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