Can People Change the World? Activists, Social Movements, and Utopian Futures | LSE Festival

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, inequality is on the rise, but so is grassroots activism. More and more individuals and groups are taking action and using their voices to tackle the growing social and economic inequalities.
Social movements and activists engage with, challenge, and seek to shape policy processes and wider political transformations to tackle inequalities through forms of mobilisation as well as everyday forms of action and resistance. From racial justice to climate emergency and women’s rights, they are imagining and building more equal, just, and sustainable societies all across the world.
Looking beyond just forms of resistance, this panel will discuss the role of activists and social movements in today’s world and examine their agency in imagining utopian futures and creating change. How are social movements providing creative spaces for not only challenging inequalities but also coming up with alternative ideas for solutions to address the problems they are fighting against? And how and to what extent are these ideas informing policy changes? #lsefestival

Speaker(s):
Dr Armine Ishkanian
Dr Faiza Shaheen
Georgia Haddad Nicolau

Chair:
Dr Maël Lavenaire

Full details/attend: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSEFesti...

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