The research project Circular Grassroots invites to a series of four webinars on how local initiatives can contribute to more just and sustainable cities. This is the third webinar.
Grassroots initiatives for sustainability, such as food-saving and repair movements, play a crucial role in advancing more just urban transformations. Beyond their environmental contributions, these initiatives generate forms of value that are central to the urban fabric, strengthening social capital, agency and empowerment, skills and knowledge development, creativity, care, wellbeing, and environmental awareness.
This webinar explores the diversity of values produced by urban grassroots initiatives, how these values are distributed among participants, and why making them visible matters for public recognition, institutional support, and governance. It also critically examines what is gained, and what is lost, when grassroots initiatives are narrowly assessed or questioned through monetary valuation.
Panellists
Ulrika Holmberg, Centre for Consumption Research. School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg
Blanca Callén, Department of Social Psycology, Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Discussants
Bruno Chies, Activist, Solidarity Fridge, Sweden
Claudio Cattaneo, Researcher, University of Barcelona
Diana Ghinea, Politician, Green Party, City of Gothenburg
Moderator
María José Zapata Campos, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
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