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144-596: Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism , organized labour , and criticism of corporate globalization , fascism and capitalism . In 2021, Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice, joining the University of British Columbia 's Department of Geography. She has been the co-director of

288-401: A mystical connection between women and nature and not enough on the actual conditions of women. She also stated that rather than being a forward-moving theory, ecofeminism is an anti-progressive movement for women. Conversely socialist ecofeminists situate gender roles in a poltical-economic framework, arguing for a materialist analysis that is deeply radical. The socialist feminist may oppose

432-479: A "climate criminal." She presented the Angry Mermaid Award (a satirical award designed to recognize the corporations who have best sabotaged the climate negotiations) to Monsanto . Writing in the wake of Hurricane Sandy , she warned that the climate crisis constitutes a massive opportunity for disaster capitalists and corporations seeking to profit from crisis. But equally, the climate crisis "can be

576-459: A "separation between nature and culture" that is the root source of our planetary ills. Some ecofeminism developed out of anarcha-feminist concern to abolishing all forms of domination, yet focusing on the oppressive nature of humanity's relationship to the natural world. According to d'Eaubonne in her book Le Féminisme ou la Mort , ecofeminism relates the oppression and domination of all marginalized groups (women, people of color, children,

720-600: A $ 450   million expansion with construction of several residential, teaching and research buildings. The expansion included the Charles E. Fipke Centre for Innovative Research, University Centre, the Engineering Management and Education building, the Arts and Sciences Centre, Reichwald Health Sciences Centre and several new student residence buildings. The Commons building was opened in 2019 as an expansion to

864-590: A 2004 petition titled "We would vote for Hugo Chávez ". In 2007, she described Venezuela under the Chávez government as a country where "citizens had renewed their faith in the power of democracy to improve their lives," and described Venezuela as a place sheltered by Chávez's policies from the economic shocks produced by capitalism. Rather, according to Klein, Chávez protected his country from financial crisis by building "a zone of relative economic calm and predictability." According to reviewer Todd Gitlin , who described

1008-592: A 21-mmember senate with Francis Carter-Cotton of Vancouver as chancellor. Before the University Act, there were several attempts at creating a degree-granting university with help from the universities of Toronto and McGill . Columbia College in New Westminster , through its affiliation with Victoria College of the University of Toronto , began to offer university-level credit at the turn of

1152-454: A brat". The next year, after she had begun her studies at the University of Toronto , the second catalyst occurred: the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre of female engineering students, which proved to be a wake-up call to feminism. Klein's writing career began with contributions to The Varsity , a student newspaper, where she served as editor-in-chief. After her third year at the University of Toronto, she dropped out of university to take

1296-555: A deep respect for nature, a feminine outlook, and an aim to establish strong community values. In her book Radical Ecology, Carolyn Merchant refers to spiritual ecofeminism as "cultural ecofeminism". According to Merchant, cultural ecofeminism, "celebrates the relationship between women and nature through the revival of ancient rituals centered on goddess worship, the moon, animals, and the female reproductive system." In this sense, cultural ecofeminists tend to value intuition and an ethic of care in human-nature interrelationships. Like

1440-571: A degree at McGill University or elsewhere. The Henry Marshall Tory Medal was established in 1941 by Tory, founding president of the University of Alberta and of the National Research Council of Canada and a co-founder of Carleton University. In the meantime, appeals were made to the government to revive the earlier legislation for a provincial institution, leading to the University Endowment Act in 1907 and

1584-555: A diversity of disciplines including Arts, Science, Fine Arts, Engineering, Nursing, Human Kinetics, Education, Management, Social Work and Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies. UBC's Faculty of Medicine delivers medical doctor training through the Southern Medical Program with facilities at UBC Okanagan and a clinical academic campus at Kelowna General Hospital . From 2005 through 2012, the Okanagan campus completed

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1728-634: A founding governor of UBC. She was also the first woman to be appointed to the UBC Senate. Active in its formation, the University Women's Club of Vancouver considered UBC its "godchild." World War I dominated campus life and the student body was "decimated" by enlistments for active service, with three hundred male UBC students in Company "D" alone. By the war's end, 697 male members of the university had enlisted. 109 students graduated in

1872-605: A historic moment to usher in the next great wave of progressive change," or a so-called "People's Shock." In November 2016, following the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States , Klein called for an international campaign to impose economic sanctions on the United States if his administration refuses to abide by the terms of the Paris Agreement . In October 2022, Klein published an article on The Intercept that addressed COP27 and

2016-597: A huge impact all over" and that the World Bank was "starting work on this". The book won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction , and was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing . Klein's fifth book, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need was published in June 2017. It has also been published internationally with

2160-465: A job at The Globe and Mail , followed by an editorship at This Magazine . In 1995, she returned to the University of Toronto with the intention of finishing her degree but left to pursue an internship in journalism before acquiring the final credits required to complete her degree. In 1999, Klein published the book No Logo , which for many became a manifesto of the anti-globalization movement . In it, she attacks brand-oriented consumer culture and

2304-665: A lantern filled with light at the exact date and time of Nitobe's death each year. The garden is behind the university's Asian Centre, which was built using steel girders from Japan's exhibit at Osaka Expo . The campus also features the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts : a performing arts center containing the Chan Shun Concert Hall , Telus Studio Theatre and the Royal Bank Cinema. It

2448-486: A list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals compiled by the Prospect magazine in conjunction with Foreign Policy magazine. On Google Scholar which tracks academic articles, Klein has an overall h-index of 53 and her publications have been cited in the scholarly literature over 49,000 times as of May 2023. She was involved in 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests , condemning police force and brutality. She spoke to

2592-521: A market society that today even invades the womb". Ecofeminism in this sense seeks to eliminate social hierarchies which favor the production of commodities (dominated by men) over biological and social reproduction traditionally seen as the sphere of women's work - see also Salleh . Spiritual ecofeminism is another approach to ecofeminism, and it is popular among North American authors such as Starhawk , Riane Eisler , and Carol J. Adams. Starhawk calls this an earth-based spirituality, which recognizes that

2736-491: A meat-based diet." During a 1995 interview with On the Issues, Carol J. Adams stated, "Manhood is constructed in our culture in part by access to meat-eating and control of other bodies, whether it's women or animals". According to Adams, "We cannot work for justice and challenge the oppression of nature without understanding that the most frequent way we interact with nature is by eating animals". Vegetarian ecofeminism refines

2880-533: A prominent activist on the international stage and was adapted into a six-minute companion film by Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón , as well as a feature-length documentary by Michael Winterbottom . Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) was a New York Times nonfiction bestseller and the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction . In 2016, Klein

3024-414: A proposal to form a provincial university. The provincial legislature passed An Act Respecting the University of British Columbia in 1890, but disagreements arose over whether to build the university on Vancouver Island or the mainland. The British Columbia University Act of 1908 formally called a provincial university into being, although its location was not specified. The governance was modelled on

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3168-443: A rally seeking the release of protesters in front of police headquarters on June 28, 2010. In October 2011, she visited Occupy Wall Street and gave a speech declaring the protest movement "the most important thing in the world". On November 10, 2011, she participated in a panel discussion about the future of Occupy Wall Street with four other panelists, including Michael Moore , William Greider , and Rinku Sen , in which she stressed

3312-460: A shipyard instead. By 1956, they had abandoned communism. Klein's father grew up surrounded by ideas of social justice and racial equality, but found it "difficult and frightening to be the child of Communists", a so-called red diaper baby . Klein's husband, Avi Lewis , was born into a political and journalistic family. His grandfather, David Lewis , was an architect and leader of the federal New Democratic Party , while his father, Stephen Lewis ,

3456-799: A system of ethics and action. The key activist-scholars developing a materialist ecofeminism are Maria Mies and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen in Germany; Vandana Shiva in India; Ariel Salleh in Australia; Mary Mellor in the UK; and Ana Isla in Peru. Materialist ecofeminism is not widely known in North America aside from the journal collective at Capitalism Nature Socialism . A materialist view integrates economic institutions such as labor, power, and property as

3600-408: A universal and value-free system. They view the dominant stream of science not as objective rather as a projection of Western patriarchal values. The determination of what is considered scientific knowledge and its usage has been largely restricted to men. Examples include the medicalization of childbirth and the industrialization of plant reproduction . A common claim within ecofeminist literature

3744-475: A very public feminist mother," and she rejected politics, instead embracing "full-on consumerism ". She has attributed her change in worldview to two catalysts. One was when she was 17 and preparing for the University of Toronto , her mother had a stroke and became severely disabled. Naomi, her father, and her brother took care of Bonnie through the period in hospital and at home, making educational sacrifices to do so. That year off prevented her "from being such

3888-423: A writer who is often mistaken for Klein and vice versa. In her 10-page introduction, Klein explains how she has been mistaken for the "other Naomi", with whom she "has been chronically confused for over a decade... I have been confused with Other Naomi for so long and so frequently that I have often felt that she was following me". For this reason, she started to follow what she calls Wolf's "new alliances with some of

4032-624: Is Canada's second-largest academic library. From 2014 to 2015, there were more than 3.8   million on-campus visits and over 9.5   million visits to its website. The library has fifteen branches and divisions across the UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan campuses. The former Main Library underwent construction and was renamed the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre . Opened in April 2008,

4176-480: Is a collection of her articles and speeches written on behalf of the anti-globalization movement (all proceeds from the book go to benefit activist organizations through The Fences and Windows Fund). The Take (2004), a documentary film collaboration by Klein and Lewis, concerns factory workers in Argentina who took over a closed plant and resumed production, operating as a collective. The first African screening

4320-595: Is a senior contributor for The Intercept . She is a former Miliband Fellow and lectured at the London School of Economics on the anti-globalization movement. Her appointment as the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick began in October 2018 and ran for 3 years. Klein ranked 11th in an internet poll of the top global intellectuals of 2005,

4464-655: Is an author and the former director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives . Before World War II, her paternal grandparents were Communists , but they began to turn against the Soviet Union after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 1939. In 1942, her grandfather, an animator at Disney , was fired after the 1941 strike , and had to switch to working in

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4608-492: Is concerned about a wide variety of issues, including reproductive technology, equal pay and equal rights, toxic pollution, Third World development, and more. Norie Ross Singer and A. E. Kings emphasize that ecofeminism must be read from an intersectionality perspective, advancing an anti-essentialist critical ecofeminism of difference accounting for how multiple axes of identity such as gender, race, and class variously intermesh in human-nonhuman relationships. Kings argues that

4752-566: Is designed to be net positive in four environmental aspects. It uses energy obtained from the Earth and Ocean Sciences (EOSC) Building to heat itself, which wastes around 900 megawatts due to ten air changes every hour. The building's wood holds nearly 600 tons of carbon, offsetting more carbon than its construction and maintenance created. Sustainable features include a water supply sourced entirely from rainwater, an on-site sewage treatment facility converting waste into reusable water and compost, and

4896-519: Is economically beneficial, and also provides a way for very urban communities to be in touch with nature and each other. The majority of people interested in this project (as noted in 1990) were women. Through these gardens, they were able to participate in and become leaders of their communities. Urban greening exists in other places as well. Beginning in 1994, a group of African-American women in Detroit have developed city gardens, and call themselves

5040-403: Is evident in the standard gendered language used to describe nature, such as "Mother Earth" or "Mother Nature", and the animalized language used to describe women in derogatory terms. Other ecofeminists point to the value of women's learning from their traditional social role as caregiver . The Indian ecofeminist and activist Vandana Shiva also writes that women have a special connection to

5184-845: Is mandated to research, exhibit, collect, publish, educate and develop programs in the field of contemporary art and in contemporary approaches to the practice of art history and criticism. The Belkin maintains and manages the university's art collection of over 5,000 objects, including the Outdoor Art Collection and an archive of over 30,000 items. Works from the permanent collection and archives, with an emphasis on recent acquisitions, are exhibited on an annual basis and are also used by other institutions for research and loans. The Belkin has an active publication program and participates in programming that includes lectures, tours, concerts and symposia related to art history, criticism and curating. The University of British Columbia CIRS building

5328-474: Is not welcome would be pointing out this enormous lucrative network of deals that the military itself is engaged in that are linked to fossil fuels, that are linked to destroying remaining green space in cities like Cairo”. Klein also stressed the release of prominent political prisoner and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah . Klein contributes to The Nation , In These Times , The Globe and Mail , This Magazine , Harper's Magazine , and The Guardian , and

5472-501: Is now home to many buildings including the First Nations House of Learning. The Nitobe Memorial Garden , built to honor Japanese scholar Inazo Nitobe , has been the subject of more than fifteen years' study by a UBC professor, who believes its construction hides a number of impressive features, including references to Japanese philosophy and mythology, shadow bridges visible only at certain times of year and positioning of

5616-681: Is often the site of convocation ceremonies and the filming location for the 4400 Center on the television show The 4400 , as well as the Madacorp entrance set on Kyle XY . It has also been featured as the Cloud 9 Ballroom in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (Season 1, Episode 11: Colonial Day ). Since the mid-1980s UBC has worked with property developers to build several large residential developments throughout UBC's campus. Such developments include: Chancellor Place, Hampton Place, Hawthorn Place and Wesbrook Village. The Okanagan Campus

5760-421: Is patriarchal culture and that the conservation of nature and natural processes is the best way to help these individuals is mistaken. She instead contends that natural processes are a source of immense suffering for these animals and that we should work towards alleviating the harms they experience, as well as eliminating patriarchal sources of harm, such as hunting. However, a position like this has been used by

5904-407: Is potentially patronizing to marginalized groups. Likewise, a radical white savior complex can disrupt the self-advocacy of racially marginalized peoples. Such criticisms rest on a failure to recognise the political intersectionality of ecofeminist critiques of global domination. Catia Faria argues that the view held by ecofeminists that the largest source of harm to non-human animals in the wild

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6048-411: Is that Western patriarchal structures justify their dominance through binary oppositions, these include but are not limited to: heaven /earth, mind/body, male / female , human/animal, spirit/matter, culture/nature and white /non-white . Oppression is reinforced by applying these binaries in social judgements of value/non-value. A version of established vegetarian ecofeminism asserts that "omitting

6192-412: Is that when a society experiences a major 'shock' there is a widespread desire for a rapid and decisive response to correct the situation; this desire for bold and immediate action provides an opportunity for unscrupulous actors to implement policies which go far beyond a legitimate response to disaster. The book suggests that when the rush to act means the specifics of a response will go unscrutinized, that

6336-401: Is the moment when unpopular and unrelated policies will intentionally be rushed into effect. The book appears to claim that these shocks are in some cases intentionally encouraged or even manufactured. Klein identifies the "shock doctrine", elaborating on Joseph Schumpeter , as the latest in capitalism's phases of " creative destruction ". The Shock Doctrine was adapted into a short film of

6480-568: Is the oldest university in British Columbia and oldest Canadian university west of Winnipeg. With an annual research budget of $ 893   million, UBC funds 9,992 projects annually in various fields of study within the industrial sector, as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations. The Vancouver campus is adjacent to the University Endowment Lands , an unincorporated area with multiple beaches and

6624-554: Is upheld through the notion that in activist and theory circles marginalized groups must be included in the discussion. In early North American movements, issues of race and class were often separated. Beginning in the late 20th century, women worked in efforts to protect wildlife , food, air and water. These efforts coincided with new developments in the environmental movement among influential writers, such as Henry David Thoreau , Aldo Leopold , John Muir , and Rachel Carson . Parallel examples from women environmental ethicists were

6768-640: Is visited annually by 3.1 million people or 9.7 million virtually. The Okanagan campus , acquired in 2005, is located in Kelowna, British Columbia. Those affiliated with UBC include eight Nobel laureates , 75 Rhodes scholars, 231 Olympians with 65 medals won collectively, 306 fellows to the Royal Society of Canada , and 22 3M National Teaching Fellows. Among UBC's alums are Canadian Prime Ministers John Turner , Kim Campbell , Justin Trudeau , and

6912-524: The 2020 U.S. election stating: "The stakes of the election are almost unbearably high. It's why I wrote the book and decided to put it out now and why I'll be doing whatever I can to help push people toward supporting a candidate with the most ambitious Green New Deal platform—so that they win the primaries and then the general." Released in September 2023, Doppelganger is a memoir and social critique that contrasts Klein's worldview with Naomi Wolf 's,

7056-526: The Chipko movement to protect forests from deforestation . Many men during this time were moving to cities in search of work, and women that stayed in the rural parts of India were reliant on the forests for subsistence. As documented by Vandana Shiva, Non-violent protest tactics were used to occupy trees so that loggers could not cut them down. In Kenya in 1977, the Green Belt Movement

7200-563: The Holocaust , which is why force alone is presented as the only conceivable response to any and all threats. The Israeli state's current murderous leveling of Gaza is the latest, unspeakably horrific manifestation of this ideology, and there will be more in the coming days. At a “Seder in the Streets" event April 23, 2024, held near Senator Chuck Schumer's residence, Klein spoke about the contemporary meaning of Passover and its relation to

7344-570: The North Shore Mountains . The 7.63-square-kilometre (1,890-acre) Pacific Spirit Regional Park serves as a green-belt between the campus and the city. Buildings on the Vancouver campus occupy 1.09 million m (11.7 million sq ft) gross on 1.7 square kilometres (420 acres) of maintained land. The campus street plan is mostly in a grid of malls (some of which are pedestrian-only). Lower Mall and West Mall are in

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7488-742: The Pacific Spirit Regional Park . The university is located 10 km (6 mi) west of downtown Vancouver. UBC is also home to TRIUMF , Canada's national particle and nuclear physics laboratory, which boasts the world's largest cyclotron . In addition to the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the Stuart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, UBC and the Max Planck Society collectively established

7632-570: The Vancouver School of Theology , Regent College , Carey Theological College and Corpus Christi College . The campus is home to numerous gardens. The UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research , the first UBC department, holds a collection of over 8000 different kinds of plants used for research, conservation and education. The UBC botanical garden's original site was at the "Old Arboretum". All that remains of it today are trees planted in 1916 by John Davidson . The old arboretum

7776-794: The reductionist capitalist paradigm, because it fails to perceive the interconnectedness of nature, or the connection of women's lives, work and knowledge with the creation of wealth (23)". Shiva attributes this failure to the Western patriarchal perceptions of development and progress. According to Shiva, patriarchy has labeled women, nature, and other groups not growing the economy as "unproductive". Similarly, Australian ecofeminist Ariel Salleh deepens this materialist ecofeminist approach in dialogue with green politics, ecosocialism , genetic engineering and climate policy. In Ecofeminism (1993) authors Vandana Shiva together with Maria Mies from Germany interrogate modern science and its acceptance as

7920-605: The "ecofeminist framework". The essay provides a wealth of data and statistics in addition to outlining the theoretical aspects of the ecofeminist critique. The framework was intended to establish ways of viewing and understanding our current global situations so that we can better understand how we arrived at this point and what may be done to ameliorate the ills. Building on the work of North American scholars Rosemary Ruether and Carolyn Merchant , Gaard and Gruen argue that there are four sides to this framework: These four factors have brought Western cultures to what ecofeminists see as

8064-440: The "most perverse of aspersions on Jews, an age-old stereotype of Jews as intrinsically evil and malicious." Klein was also a spokesperson for the protest against the spotlight on Tel Aviv at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival , a spotlight that Klein said was a very selective and misleading portrait of Israel. She has also served on the advisory board of the organization Jewish Voice for Peace . In October 2023, in

8208-608: The 1850s to the 1970s. It is considered the premiere private collection of early provincial photos and an important illustrated history of early photographic methods. In 2016, the library acquired one of the world's most rare and extraordinary books, the Kelmscott Chaucer from 1896. The book was printed in a limited edition of only 438 copies, but there are only 48 copies in the world with its particular type of binding. The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC

8352-424: The 1920–21 winter session, but only 64 academic staff, including 6 women. In the early part of the 20th century, professional education expanded beyond the traditional fields of theology, law, and medicine. Although UBC did not offer degrees in these fields, it began to offer degrees in new professional areas such as engineering, agriculture, nursing, and school teaching. It also introduced graduate training based on

8496-444: The 1945–46 session, with a sixteenth camp on Little Mountain , in Vancouver, converted into suites for married students. Most of the camps were dismantled and carried by barge or truck to the university, where the huts were scattered across the campus. Student numbers hit 9,374 in 1948; more than 53% of the students were war veterans in 1947–67. Between 1947 and 1951, the university built twenty new permanent buildings. Those included

8640-514: The American left—what Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky were thirty years ago." On February 24, 2009, the book was awarded the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing from the University of Warwick in England. The prize carried a cash award of £50,000. Klein's fourth book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate , was published in September 2014. The book puts forth the argument that

8784-546: The Disaster Capitalists covers what San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz refers to as "a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis." In April 2019, Simon & Schuster announced they would be publishing Klein's seventh book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal , which

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8928-515: The Earth is alive, and that we are an interconnected community. Spiritual ecofeminism is not linked to one specific religion, but is centered around values of caring, compassion , and non-violence. Often, ecofeminists refer to more ancient traditions, such as the worship of Gaia , the Goddess of nature and spirituality (also known as Mother Earth). Wicca and Paganism are particularly influential to spiritual ecofeminism. Most Wicca covens demonstrate

9072-567: The Gardening Angels. Similar garden movements have occurred globally. The development of vegetarian ecofeminism can be traced to the mid-80s and 90s, where it first appeared in writing. However, the roots of a vegetarian ecofeminist view can be traced back further by looking at sympathy for non-humans and counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s. At the culmination of the decade, ecofeminism had spread to both USA coasts and articulated an intersectional analysis of women and

9216-495: The German-inspired American model of specialized course work and the completion of a research thesis, with students completing M.A. degrees in natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. By 1922, the student body numbered over 1200 and embarked on a "Build the University" campaign. Students marched through the streets of Vancouver to draw attention to their plight, enlist popular support, and embarrass

9360-535: The Green Belt Movement continues today. In 1978 in New York , mother and environmentalist Lois Gibbs led her community in protest after discovering that their entire neighborhood, Love Canal , was built on top of a toxic dump site . The toxins in the ground were causing illness among children and reproductive issues among women, as well as birth defects in babies born to pregnant women exposed to

9504-628: The Learning Centre incorporates the centre heritage block of the old Main Library with two new expansion wings and features an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), the first of its kind in Canada. UBC has a number of different collections that have been donated and acquired. Major General Victor Odlum CB, CMG, DSO, VD donated his library of 10,000 books, which has been housed in "the Rockwoods Centre Library" of

9648-465: The Library building. Two additional student housing facilities, Skeena and Nechako, opened in 2020 and 2021 respectively. In 2010, UBC Okanagan campus grew from 105 ha. to 208.6 ha. Like the Point Grey campus, the Okanagan campus attracts Canadian and international students. UBC Okanagan is currently expanding its campus to downtown Kelowna. Construction on the 43 storey downtown campus building

9792-533: The Math" tour in 2013, encouraging a divestment movement. In an interview by Graeme Greene in New Internationalist , Klein rejected criticism that This Changes Everything politicized the climate issue and that the issue should be apolitical, asserting that such criticism reflected "how blind so many within the mainstream climate discussion are to the fact that they themselves are fully immersed within

9936-575: The Postmoden was mostly found among North American academics influenced by post-structuralist theory. In Europe and the global South, class, race, gender and species dominations were framed by more grounded materialist understandings. While Rosemary Radford Ruether critiqued any mysticism in work that focused on helping women, she argued that spirituality and activism can be combined effectively in ecofeminism. Social ecologist and feminist Janet Biehl criticized ecofeminism for focusing too much on

10080-532: The Provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906, which created a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate (faculty) responsible for academic policy and a board of governors (citizens) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters. The president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the two bodies and to perform institutional leadership. The Act constituted

10224-620: The UBC Library since 1963. After Videomatica's 2011 closure, UBC and SFU acquired their $ 1.7-million collection. UBC received about 28,000 movie DVDs, 4,000 VHS titles and 900 Blu-ray discs which are housed at UBC Library's Koerner branch on the Vancouver campus. In 2014, renowned art collector and antiques specialist, Uno Langmann, donated the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs, which consists of more than 18,000 rare and unique early photographs from

10368-468: The University Act in 1908. In 1910, the Point Grey site was chosen, and the government appointed Dr. Frank Fairchild Wesbrook as President in 1913 and Leonard Klinck as Dean of Agriculture in 1914. A declining economy and the outbreak of war in August 1914 compelled the university to postpone plans for building at Point Grey, and instead the former McGill University College site at Fairview became home to

10512-537: The War Memorial Gym, which was built with money raised primarily by the students and dedicated on October 26, 1951. In the 1961–62 academic year, the university had an enrollment of 12,602 students, including 798 graduate students. The next year, the single-University policy in the West was changed as existing colleges of the provincial Universities gained autonomy as Universities – the University of Victoria

10656-450: The address. UBC Vancouver also has two satellite campuses within the City of Vancouver: at Vancouver General Hospital , for the medical sciences and at Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, for part-time credit and non-credit programs. UBC is also a partner in the consortium backing Great Northern Way Campus Ltd and is affiliated with a group of adjacent theological colleges, which include

10800-607: The alternative subtitle Defeating the New Shock Politics . Writing in Geographical , Chris Fitch described this book as arguing for "radical change, and for bold, ambitious policies, to provide a credible alternative to the world vision of the Trump White House, and avert the worst effects of climate change." Released in June 2018 as paperback and e-book, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on

10944-438: The analysis is fundamentally intersectional given that it is built upon the idea that patriarchal violence against women is connected to domination of nature. Feminist thought surrounding ecofeminism grew in some areas as it was criticized; vegetarian ecofeminism contributed to intersectional analysis; and ecofeminisms that analyzed animal rights , labor rights and activisms focused on oppressed groups. However to some critics,

11088-678: The association between domination by men of women and the domination of culture over nature. Feminist activism of the 1980s included grass-roots movements such as the National Toxics Campaign, Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA), and Native Americans for a Clean Environment (NACE) led by women devoted to issues of human health and environmental justice. Writings in this circle discussed ecofeminism drawing from Green Party politics, peace movements , and direct action movements. Ecofeminist theory asserts that capitalism reflects only paternalistic and patriarchal values, such that

11232-446: The books Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams . Ecofeminist author Karen Warren lists Aldo Leopold's essay " Land Ethic " (1949) as fundamental to her own ecofeminist conception, as Leopold was the first to pen an ethic for the land which understands all non-human parts of that community (animals, plants, land, air, water) as equal to and in a relationship with humans. This inclusive understanding of

11376-528: The campus, in the Grand Campus Washout of 1935. The campus did not have storm drains and surface runoff went down a ravine to the beach. When the university carved a ditch to drain flooding on University Avenue, the rush of water steepened the ravine and eroded it back as fast as 10 feet (3.0 m) per hour. The resulting gully eventually consumed 100,000 cubic yards (76,455 m ), two bridges and buildings near Graham House . The university

11520-481: The century, but McGill came to dominate higher education in the early 1900s. Building on a successful affiliation between Vancouver and Victoria high schools with McGill University, Henry Marshall Tory helped establish the McGill University College of British Columbia. From 1906 to 1915, McGill BC (as it was called) operated as a private institution, providing the first few years toward

11664-467: The citizens of these countries were in shock from disasters, upheavals, or invasion. The book became an international and New York Times bestseller and was translated into 28 languages. Central to the book's thesis is the contention that those who wish to implement unpopular free market policies now routinely do so by taking advantage of certain features of the aftermath of major disasters, be they economic, political, military or natural. The suggestion

11808-617: The community (people and the environment). This movement is known as the Women's Pentagon Actions. In 1985, the Akwesasne Mother's Milk Project was launched by Katsi Cook . This study was funded by the government, and investigated how the higher level of contaminants in water near the Mohawk reservation impacted babies. It revealed that through breast milk , Mohawk children were being exposed to 200% more toxins than children not on

11952-461: The confines of neoliberalism; ... It's a fantasy that you could fundamentally shift the building blocks of your economy without engaging with politics." She encouraged the Occupy movement to join forces with the environmental movement , saying the financial crisis and the climate crisis are similarly rooted in unrestrained corporate greed. She gave a speech at Occupy Wall Street where she described

12096-406: The context of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war , she wrote: For Zionist believers (I'm not one of them), Jew hatred is the central rationale for why Israel must exist as a nuclear-armed fortress . Within this worldview, antisemitism is cast as a primordial force that cannot be weakened or confronted. The world will always turn away from us in our hour of need, Zionism tells us, just as it did during

12240-674: The crucial nature of the evolving movement. Klein also made an appearance in the British radio show Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. Klein was a key instigator of the Leap Manifesto , a political manifesto issued in the context of the 2015 Canadian federal election focused on addressing the climate crisis through restructuring the Canadian economy and dealing with issues of income and wealth inequality, racism, and colonialism. The manifesto has been noted as an influence in

12384-469: The day of the declaration of war, the University has been prepared to put at the disposal of the Government all possible assistance by way of laboratories, equipment and trained personnel, insofar as such action is consistent with the maintenance of reasonably efficient instructional standards. To do less would be unthinkable. ' Heavy rains and melting snowfall eroded a deep ravine across the north end of

12528-693: The demonstration against the Keystone XL pipeline outside the White House and was arrested. Klein celebrated Obama's decision to postpone a decision on the Keystone pipeline until 2013 pending an environmental review as a victory for the environmental movement. She attended the Copenhagen Climate Summit of 2009 . She put the blame for the failure of Copenhagen on President Barack Obama , and described her own country, Canada, as

12672-481: The development of the Green New Deal and eventually led to the establishment of The Leap, an organization that works to promote the realization of the principles behind the original manifesto. Ecofeminism Ecofeminist analysis explores the connections between women and nature in culture, economy, religion, politics, literature and iconography, and addresses the culturally constructed parallels between

12816-433: The ecofeminist by arguing that women do not have an intrinsic connection with nature; rather, that is a socially constructed narrative. Although environmental justice and feminist care ethics have pushed for participation of marginalized groups, Andrew Charles points out that people with disabilities still face issues of access and representation in policy making. It is also suggested that the nurturing aspect of ecofeminism

12960-672: The economy as protecting poor people from harm caused by globalization. In 2017, Mark Milke and conservative writer James Kirchick criticized Klein for her support of Chávez. In March 2008, Klein was the keynote speaker at the first national conference of the Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians (now Independent Jewish Voices ). In January 2009, during the Gaza War , Klein supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel , arguing that "the best strategy to end

13104-412: The effects of capitalism have not benefited women. In the 1970s, many ecofeminists argued that the nature/culture split can be healed by women's holistic knowledge of nature's processes. Other ecofeminist scholars emphasize that it is not because women are female or "feminine" that they are sensitive to nature, but because they experience oppression by the same masculinist forces. The marginalization

13248-427: The end of World War II , Point Grey's facilities could not meet the influx of veterans returning to their studies. The university needed new staff, courses, faculties and buildings for teaching and accommodation. The student population rose from 2,974 in 1944–45 to 9,374 in 1947–48. Surplus Army and Air Force camps were used for both classrooms and accommodations. The university took over fifteen complete camps during

13392-418: The environment helped launch the modern preservation movement and illustrated how environmental issues can be viewed through a framework of caring. Women have long participated in environmental movements , specifically preservation and conservation beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing into the early twentieth century. In India , in the state of Uttarakhand in 1973, women took part in

13536-433: The environment through their daily interactions and that this has been underestimated. According to Shiva, women in subsistence economies who produce "wealth in partnership with nature, have been experts in their own right of holistic and ecological knowledge of nature's processes". She makes the point that "these alternative modes of knowing, which are oriented to the social benefits and sustenance needs are not recognized by

13680-535: The environment. Eventually, challenging ideas of environmental classism and racism, resisting toxic dumping and other threats to the impoverished. In the 1980s and 1990s ecofeminism began to be heavily critiqued as ' essentialism '. The critics wrongly believed ecofeminism to be reinforcing patriarchal dominance and norms, misconstruing the ideological challenge involved. Post structural and third wave feminists argued that ecofeminism itself equated women with nature and this grouped all women into one category enforcing

13824-481: The first Max Planck Institute in North America, specializing in quantum mechanics. Green College is UBC's transdisciplinary semi-independent post-graduate live-in college and is situated on the north-eastern tip of campus adjacent to Burrard Inlet . One of Canada's largest research libraries , the UBC Library system has over 8.3   million items (including print and electronic) among its 21 branches. It

13968-465: The former Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Kiril Petkov . The University shall... provide for Such instruction in all branches of liberal education as may enable students to become proficient in... science, commerce, arts, literature, law, medicine, and all other branches of knowledge In 1877, six years after British Columbia joined Canada, the Superintendent of Education, John Jessop , submitted

14112-453: The genetic engineering industry to rationalise the commercial remaking of evolutionary relations. Over the years, various political interests have offered various response to ecofeminism. University of British Columbia Kelowna , British Columbia, Canada The University of British Columbia ( UBC ) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Kelowna , in British Columbia , Canada. Established in 1908, it

14256-423: The government. Fifty-six thousand signatures were presented at the legislature in support of the campaign, which was ultimately successful. On September 22, 1925, lectures began at the new Point Grey campus. Except for the library, science, and Power House buildings, all the campus buildings were temporary buildings. Students built two playing fields, but the university had no dormitories and no social center. However,

14400-481: The hegemony of neoliberal market fundamentalism is blocking any serious reforms to halt climate change and protect the environment. Questioned about Klein's claim that capitalism and controlling climate change were incompatible, Benoit Blarel, manager of the Environment and Natural Resources global practice at the World Bank, said that the write-off of fossil fuels necessary to control climate change "will have

14544-521: The inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction . Klein has written about the Iraq War . In "Baghdad Year Zero" ( Harper's Magazine , September 2004), Klein argues that, contrary to popular belief, the George W. Bush administration did have a clear plan for post-invasion Iraq: to build a completely unconstrained free market economy. She describes plans to allow foreigners to extract wealth from Iraq and

14688-471: The inclusion of non-human animals came to be viewed as essentialist. In the 21st century, ecofeminists became aware of the criticisms, and in response some among them began doing research and renaming the topic, i.e. queer ecologies, global feminist environmental justice , and gender and the environment. The essentialism concern as Ariel Salleh pointed out in Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and

14832-721: The increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa." In summer 2009, on the occasion of the publication of the Hebrew translation of her book The Shock Doctrine , Klein visited Israel, the West Bank , and Gaza , combining the promotion of her book and the BDS campaign. In an interview to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz , she emphasized that it

14976-448: The materialist ecofeminists Mies, Shiva, and Salleh, Susan A. Mann, an ecofeminist and professor of sociological and feminist theory, considers the roles women played in these activisms to be the starter for ecofeminism in later centuries. Mann associates the beginning of ecofeminism not with feminists but with women of many different backgrounds who made perceived connections between gender, race, class, and environmental issues. This ideal

15120-543: The methods used to achieve those goals. Her "Baghdad Year Zero" was one of the inspirations for the 2008 film War, Inc. Klein's "Bring Najaf to New York" ( The Nation , August 2004) argued that Muqtada Al Sadr 's Mahdi Army "represents the overwhelmingly mainstream sentiment in Iraq" and that, if he were elected, "Sadr would try to turn Iraq into a theocracy like Iran," although his immediate demands were for "direct elections and an end to foreign occupation". Klein signed

15264-558: The most dangerous men on the planet", and wrote the book with the intention of using her doppelganger experience "as a guide into and through what I have come to understand as our doppelganger culture". Klein suggests that the Western world has fractured along political and ideological lines to such an extent that each side feels the other exists in a "mirror world". The book received primarily positive reviews and debuted at number 8 on The New York Times hardcover nonfiction weekly best seller list. On June 13, 2024, Doppelganger won Klein

15408-456: The newly launched Centre for Climate Justice since 2021. Klein first became known internationally for her alter-globalization book No Logo (1999). The Take (2004), a documentary film about Argentine workers' self-managed factories, written by her and directed by her husband Avi Lewis , further increased her profile. The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics, solidified her standing as

15552-415: The operations of large corporations. She also accuses several such corporations of unethically exploiting workers in the world's poorest countries in pursuit of greater profits. In this book, Klein criticized Nike so severely that Nike published a point-by-point response. No Logo became an international bestseller, selling over one million copies in over 28 languages. Klein's Fences and Windows (2002)

15696-400: The oppression of animals from feminist and ecofeminist analyses … is inconsistent with the activist and philosophical foundations of both feminism (as a "movement to end all forms of oppression") and ecofeminism." This puts into practice " the personal is political ", as many ecofeminists believe that "meat-eating is a form of patriarchal domination…that suggests a link between male violence and

15840-512: The oppression of nature and the oppression of women. These parallels include, but are not limited to, seeing women and nature as property, seeing men as the curators of culture and women as the curators of nature, and how men dominate women and humans dominate nature. Ecofeminism emphasizes that both women and nature must be respected. Though the scope of ecofeminist analysis is dynamic, American author and ecofeminist Charlene Spretnak has offered one way of categorizing ecofeminist work: 1) through

15984-433: The overall argument of Klein's book The Shock Doctrine (2007) as "more right than wrong," Klein is "a romantic," who expected that the Chávez government would produce a bright future in which worker-controlled co-operatives would run the economy. The Shock Doctrine was consistent with her prior thinking about globalization , and in that book she describes Chávez' policies as an example of public control of some sectors of

16128-582: The poor) to the oppression and domination of nature (animals, land, water, air, etc.). She argues that oppression, domination, exploitation, and colonization under Western patriarchal society has directly caused irreversible environmental damage. An activist and organizer, d'Eaubonne advocated the eradication of all social injustice, not just injustice against women and the environment . Influential early texts included: Women and Nature ( Susan Griffin 1978), The Death of Nature ( Carolyn Merchant 1980) and Gyn/Ecology ( Mary Daly 1978), which helped propel

16272-535: The repression of the Egyptian government; the conference took place in Egypt, a country widely seen as repressive and autocratic. She goes on to state " Sisi's Egypt is making a big show of solar panels and biodegradable straws ... but in reality, the regime imprisons activists and bans research. The climate movement should not play along." calling it 'greenwashing'. In an interview with Democracy Now! , she says “what

16416-426: The reservation. Toxins contaminate water all over the world, but due to environmental racism , certain marginalized groups are exposed to a much higher amount. The Greening of Harlem Coalition is another example of an ecofeminist movement. In 1989, Bernadette Cozart founded the coalition, which is responsible for many urban gardens around Harlem . Cozart's goal is to turn vacant lots into community gardens . This

16560-552: The resignation of Dr. Arvind Gupta . In early May 2020, UBC announced it would be holding a virtual graduation for the class of 2020 amid concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic . The university received $ 419,248 from the Government of Canada to promote uptake of COVID-19 vaccines among public health leaders, community figures, Indigenous peoples and leadership in municipal government. On October 3, 2022, Dr. Deborah Buszard

16704-565: The same name, released onto YouTube . The original is no longer available on the site; however, a duplicate was published in 2008. The film was directed by Jonás Cuarón , produced and co-written by his father Alfonso Cuarón . The original video was viewed over one million times. The director Michael Winterbottom , alongside Mat Whitecross , also produced a documentary on the book which premiered in 2009. The publication of The Shock Doctrine increased Klein's prominence, with The New Yorker judging her "the most visible and influential figure on

16848-485: The source of domination over women and nature. Connections made between these subjects because of the contrast between masculinist values of production versus the reproduction of living relations. This ecofeminism may also be referred to as "social feminism", "socialist ecofeminism", or "Marxist ecofeminism". According to Carolyn Merchant, "Social ecofeminism advocates the liberation of women through overturning economic and social hierarchies that turn all aspects of life into

16992-745: The southwestern part of the peninsula, with Main, East and Wesbrook Malls northeast of them. The campus is not within Vancouver's city limits and therefore UBC is policed by the RCMP rather than the Vancouver Police Department . However, the Vancouver Fire Department provides service to UBC under a contract. In addition to UBC RCMP, there is also the UBC Campus Security that patrols the campus. Postage sent to any building on campus includes Vancouver in

17136-488: The study of political theory as well as history; 2) through the belief and study of nature-based religions ; 3) through environmentalism . While diverse ecofeminist perspectives have emerged from women activists and thinkers all over the world, academic studies of ecofeminism have been dominated by North American universities. Thus, in the 1993 essay entitled "Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary Health", authors Greta Gaard and Lori Gruen outline what they call

17280-404: The subject of her book This Changes Everything (2014). According to her website in 2016, the book and its accompanying film (released in 2015) would be about "how the climate crisis can spur economic and political transformation." She served on the board of directors of the non-profit group 350.org from April 7, 2011, through the fiscal year ending September 2018, and took part in their "Do

17424-527: The three policy pillars of the neoliberal age—privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending—are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels. And together these pillars form an ideological wall that has blocked a serious response to climate change for decades. By 2009, Klein's attention had turned to environmentalism, with particular focus on climate change ,

17568-579: The three war-time congregations, all but one in the Faculty of Arts and Science. By 1920, the university had only three faculties: Arts, Applied Science, and Agriculture (with the Departments of Agronomy , Animal Husbandry , Dairying , Horticulture, and Poultry). It only awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) and Bachelor of Science in agriculture (BSA). There were 576 male students and 386 female students in

17712-487: The toxins. The Love Canal movement eventually led to the evacuation and relocation of nearly 800 families by the federal government . In 1980 and 1981, women like ecofeminist Ynestra King organized a peaceful protest at the Pentagon . Women stood, hand in hand, demanding equal rights (including social, economic, and reproductive rights ) as well as an end to militaristic actions taken by the government and exploitation of

17856-625: The university continued to grow. Soon, however, the effects of the depression began to be felt. The provincial government, upon which the university depended heavily, cut the annual grant severely. In 1932–33, salaries were cut by up to 23%. Posts remained vacant, and a few faculty lost their jobs. Most graduate courses were dropped. In 1935, the university established the Department of Extension. Just as things began to improve, World War II began, and Canada declared war on September 10, 1939. Soon afterwards, University President Klinck wrote: ' From

18000-480: The university raised $ 262 million for the campaign. An additional $ 72 million in "non-campaign fundraising" was also raised. During the administration of President Strangway, UBC abandoned its previous design and planning process and private donors started to have more influence on building design. In 2015, UBC concluded its "Start an Evolution" capital campaign. The campaign's quiet phase started in April 2008 and it launched publicly in September 2011. The initial goal

18144-408: The university until 1925. On the first day of lectures, September 30, 1915, the new independent university absorbed McGill University College. The University of British Columbia awarded its first degrees in 1916, and Klinck became the second president in 1919, serving until 1944. In 1917, Evlyn Fenwick Farris became the first woman in Canada to be appointed to the board of governors of a university—

18288-470: The use of wood from pine beetle-killed trees, minimizing the need for logging. The building relies primarily on solar energy for electricity, and all areas use natural lighting during the day. These green technologies and sustainable operating practices reduce the building's ecological footprint and enhance the well-being of its occupants. For over 20 years, UBC has implemented water consumption policies through two initiatives, ECOTrek and UBC Renew. ECOTrek

18432-413: The very societal norms that feminism is trying to break. The ascribed essentialism actually reversed the political radicalism of ecofeminism by claiming that: Ecofeminist Noel Sturgeon says in an interview that what anti-essentialists fail to recognise is a strategy used to mobilize large and diverse groups of both theorists and activists. Additionally, according to Charlene Spretnak, modern ecofeminism

18576-422: The war. Using The Exodus story of Israelites worshipping the golden calf as an idol, she drew parallels to what she called "the false idol of Zionism." She said "It is a false idol that takes our most profound biblical stories of justice and emancipation from slavery, the story of Passover itself, and turns them into brutalist weapons of colonial land theft, roadmaps for ethnic cleansing and genocide." Indeed

18720-575: The world as "upside down", where we act as if "there is no end to what is actually finite—fossil fuels and the atmospheric space to absorb their emissions," and as if there are "limits to what is actually bountiful—the financial resources to build the kind of society we need." She has been a particularly vocal critic of the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, describing it in a TED talk as a form of "terrestrial skinning." On September 2, 2011, she attended

18864-489: Was a leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party . Avi Lewis works as a TV journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia . The couple have one son, Toma. Klein spent much of her teenage years in shopping malls , obsessed with designer labels . As a child and teenager, she found it "very oppressive to have

19008-484: Was appointed interim President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC. In July 2023, UBC announced that Carleton University President Benoit-Antoine Bacon would be UBC's new President as of November 1, 2023. The main campus is located at Point Grey , approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from downtown Vancouver. It lies on forcefully taken territory of the Musqueam people . It is near several beaches and has views of

19152-543: Was approved in August 2023 and is expected to be completed by 2027. Eight storeys will be used as academic space for health programs, as the campus will be in close proximity to Interior Health offices and Kelowna General Hospital . The building will also include public engagement spaces, an art gallery, cafes, retailers and 473 rental housing units. The UBC Library, which has 7.8   million volumes, 2.1   million e-books, more than 370,000 e-journals and more than 700,000 items in locally produced digital collections,

19296-587: Was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her activism on climate justice. Klein frequently appears on global and national lists of top influential thinkers, including the 2014 Thought Leaders ranking compiled by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute , Prospect magazine's world thinkers 2014 poll, and Maclean's 2014 Power List. She was formerly a member of the board of directors of the climate activist group 350.org . Naomi Klein

19440-578: Was born in Montreal , Quebec , into a Jewish family with a history of peace activism . Her parents were self-described hippies who emigrated from the United States in 1967 as war resisters to the Vietnam War . Her mother, documentary filmmaker Bonnie Sherr Klein , is best known for her anti-pornography film Not a Love Story . Her father, Michael Klein, is a physician and a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility . Her brother, Seth Klein,

19584-431: Was closed for four and a half days. Afterwards, the gully was filled with debris from a nearby landslide, and only traces are visible today. Military training on the campus became popular and was later made mandatory. WWII marked the first provision of money from the federal government to the university for research purposes. This laid a foundation for future research grants from the federal government of Canada. By

19728-615: Was established in 1963. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced the creation of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC on July 1, 1971. At a construction cost of $ 2.5   million the museum building, designed by Arthur Erickson , opened in 1976. That same year, the university launched a normal school program under the direction of Sally Rogow to train educators on methods to teach students with multiple disabilities or who were visually impaired. In 1993, UBC concluded its "World of Opportunity" capital campaign that started in 1988. In total

19872-604: Was established in 2005 on what was previously the North Kelowna Campus of Okanagan University College , next to Kelowna International Airport . It was founded in partnership with the Syilx Okanagan Nation and it lies on their ancestral and forcefully taken territory. The campus had a 2019 enrollment of 10,708 undergraduate and graduate students and has its own academic Senate. UBC Okanagan offers 62 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs in

20016-562: Was important "not to boycott Israelis but rather to boycott the normalization of Israel and the conflict." In a speech in Ramallah on June 27, she apologized to Palestinians for not joining the BDS campaign earlier. Her remarks, particularly that "[some Jews] even think we get one get-away-with-genocide-free card" were characterized by Noam Schimmel, an op-ed columnist in The Jerusalem Post , as "violent" and "unethical", and as

20160-640: Was in the Kennedy Road shack settlement in the South African city of Durban , where the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement began. An article in Z Communications criticized The Take for its portrayal of the Argentine general and politician Juan Domingo Perón arguing that he was falsely portrayed as a social democrat. Klein's third book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism ,

20304-617: Was initiated by environmental and political activist Professor Wangari Maathai . It is a rural tree planting program led by women, which Maathai designed to help prevent desertification in the area. The program created a ' green belt ' of at least 1,000 trees around villages, and gave participants the ability to take charge in their communities. In later years, the Green Belt Movement was an advocate for informing and empowering citizens through seminars for civic and environmental education, as well as holding national leaders accountable for their actions and instilling agency in citizens. The work of

20448-426: Was published on September 17, 2019. On Fire is a collection of essays focusing on climate change and the urgent actions needed to preserve the world. Klein relates her meeting with Greta Thunberg in the opening essay in which she discusses the entrance of young people into those speaking out for climate awareness and change. She supports the Green New Deal throughout the book and in the final essay she discusses

20592-577: Was published on September 4, 2007. The book argues that the free market policies of Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics have risen to prominence in countries such as Chile under Pinochet , Poland, and Russia under Yeltsin . The book also argues that policy initiatives (for instance, the privatization of Iraq's economy under the Coalition Provisional Authority ) were rushed through while

20736-418: Was to raise $ 1.5 billion. The campaign surpassed that goal and raised $ 1.624 billion. UBC's 15th president was Professor Santa J. Ono . He assumed the presidency on August 15, 2016. He served previously as the 28th president of the University of Cincinnati . Dr. Martha Piper – who served as the 11th president of the university – served as interim president from September 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016, following

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