Join us for an author reception celebrating the launch of  “Building Something Better: Environmental Crisis and the Promise of Community Change”

Sociologists Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizabeth Kallman demonstrate how communities adapt in the face of crises and explain that sociology can help us understand how and why they do this challenging work. Tackling neoliberalism head-on, these communities are making big changes by crafting distributive and regenerative systems that depart from capitalist approaches. The vivid case studies presented range from activist water protectors to renewable energy cooperatives led by Indigenous peoples and nations. Alongside these studies, Malin and Kallman present incisive critiques of colonialism, extractive capitalism, and neoliberalism, while demonstrating how sociology’s own disciplinary traditions have been complicit with those ideologies– and must expand beyond them.

Stephanie A. Malin, Phd is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. An environmental sociologist, Stephanie specializes in environmental and natural resource sociology, governance, and rural development. She is the author of The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice and a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Environmental Justice at CSU.

Book sales and light refreshments provided.