Matt Hern
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Matt Hern | |
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| Born | 1968 (age 55–56) Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer, scholar, activist, community organizer |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Solidarity Economics, Urban Studies, Alternative Education |
| Notable works | "Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life", "On this Patch of Grass", "What a City is For" |
| Website | |
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Matt Hern is a writer and activist.
[1][2] Hern is known for his work in solidarity economics, radical urbanism, community development, social ecology, and alternative forms of education.[3][4][5] He has founded a wide range of community projects, initiatives and institutions.[6][7][8] He is currently the co-founder and co-director of Solid State Community Industries which is building a network of workers' co-operatives with newcomer and racialized communities. [9][10] His writing has been published into seventeen languages.[11]
Early life and education[edit]
Hern was born in Victoria and grew up in rural British Columbia. After attending Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, he worked in journalism in New York City before moving to East Vancouver working as a sportswriter for a number of years. Hern was a student at the Institute for Social Ecology in Plainfield, Vermont where he completed an MA working closely with Murray Bookchin, and shortly after became a faculty member. Hern holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the Union Institute and University.
Community organizing[edit]
Running parallel to his scholarship and writing, Hern has a long history of founding and directing community institutions. These include alternative community schools, youth centres, youth exchanges and a solidarity-economy incubator.[12][13][14] Currently Hern is co-directing a project he co-founded in 2017: Solid State Community Industries, a co-op of solidarity economy co-ops built by and with newcomer and racialized migrant communities.[15] The project derives inspiration from co-operative and autonomist movements, and is building a network of workers co-operatives and enterprises.[16]
Hern has also founded a number of other community projects and initiatives, the best-known of which is Car-Free Day Vancouver.[17][18] He founded it in 2005, shepherded its growth to four major Vancouver neighbourhoods and an annual event that draws 400,000 people annually to call for an ecological city.[19]
In 2021, Solid State Industries was featured in an episode of the CTV reality series Holmes Family Effect.[20]
Personal[edit]
Hern lives on a houseboat on the Fraser River with his partner and family.
Bibliography[edit]
- Outside the Outside: The New Politics of Suburbs , Verso, 2024.
- O My Friends, There Is No Friend, transcript publishing,, 2024, written with Am Johal.
- Big Moves: Global Agendas, Local Aspirations, and Urban Mobility in Canada, McGill-Queen's, 2020[21]
- On this Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land, Fernwood Publishing, 2019, co-authored with Selena, Sadie and Daisy Couture and contributions from Glen Coulthard, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Erick Villagomez.[22][23] Hern, et al, investigate one small urban park — Vancouver’s Victoria Park, or Bocce Ball Park — as a way to interrogate the politics of land.
- Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: In Search of an Ecological Future, MIT Press, 2018, co-authored with Am Johal, cartoons and drawings by Joe Sacco. The book charts multiple trips through the tar sands of northern Alberta and affected Indigenous communities.[24][25][26]
- What a City is For (MIT Press,) 2016. Hern interrogates and charts the ongoing aggressive dispersal of Portland’s Black community in the context of perhaps North America’s most liberal city.[27][28]
- One Game at a Time, AK Press, 2014, which is a radical critique and defense of sports.[29][30][31]
- Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, AK Press, 2009, which explores participatory urbanism in Vancouver, BC, Canada.[32][33] City of Vancouver Book Award, 2010, Finalist.
- Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn't Always Better, New Star Books, 2007.[34]
- Field Day, New Star, 2003. George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, 2004, Finalist.[35]
Editor[edit]
- Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook for Youth, AK Press, 2013.
- Everywhere All The Time, AK Press, 2008.
- Deschooling Our Lives, New Star, 1996.[36]
References[edit]
- ↑ Lee, Jeff (22 Sep 2009). "Social activists fear homeless bill an Olympic push to clean streets". The Vancouver Sun.
- ↑ "Home-grown Olympic resistance for the whole family". The Globe and Mail. 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ "Growing Without Schooling", Wikipedia, 2024-06-26, retrieved 2024-07-19
- ↑ Smith, Charlie (August 26, 2017). "East Vancouver scholar Matt Hern highlights bigger issues underlying gentrification". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
- ↑ Lakes, Richard D. (2002). "Casual Apprenticeship: The Vocational Pedagogy of Deschooling". Journal of Thought. 37 (3): 53–63. JSTOR 42589712 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ "Citizen Hern". Vancouver Magazine. 2008-03-02. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
- ↑ "The problem with Vancouver's Car Free Day is your car". Vancouver Is Awesome. 2018-06-18. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ Collins, John (2014-06-27). Common Notions: Handbook Not Required Trailer. Retrieved 2024-03-31 – via Vimeo.
- ↑ "We are Co-ops : Meet Solid State Community Industries!". BC Coop Association. 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ Heritage, Canadian (2024-01-16). "The Government of Canada announces funding for Black Communities in British Columbia". www.canada.ca. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ "Ep. 7 | Matt Hern: Supporting Community Development through Worker Co-operatives". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ Wainwright, Joel (2015). "Book Review Symposium: Geoff Mann'sDisassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism(2013, Oakland: AK press):Introduction". Capitalism Nature Socialism. 26 (2): 107–131. doi:10.1080/10455752.2015.1030436 – via Taylor & Francis Online.
- ↑ undercommoning (2015-01-20). "The Purple Thistle Centre (Vancouver)". Undercommoning. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ "Urban realities meet grassroots community activism". The Globe and Mail. 2010-11-12. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ Reduction, Social Development and Poverty (2023-03-31). "New co-ops will open doors to income and protections for racialized communities | BC Gov News". news.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ "Ep. 7 | Matt Hern: Supporting Community Development through Worker Co-operatives". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ "Car-free days in Vancouver fuelled by imaginative rebels with a cause". The Georgia Straight. 2017-06-14. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
- ↑ Burrows, Matthew (11 March 2009). "City of Vancouver shouldn't drive car-free days: founder". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
- ↑ Moore, Joseph (2016). "Car Free Day! Urban Homemaking, Projects and the Neighbourhood Politics of Home." in Sociology of Home: Belonging, Community, and Place in the Canadian Context. Canadian Scholar's Press. pp. 187–202. Search this book on
- ↑ "'Holmes Family Effect' transforms Surrey, B.C. Workspace for Solid State youth empowerment co-op". 16 February 2021.
- ↑ "Big Moves | McGill-Queen's University Press". www.mqup.ca. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
- ↑ Feb 27, Jessica DeWitt; Read, 2019 4 Min. ""Pacifying the unruly city"". briarpatchmagazine.com. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ Sandborn, Tom (5 July 2019). "Book review: On This Patch of Grass digs deep into understanding urban green spaces". The Vancouver Sun.
- ↑ Harris, Keith (2020), Melis, Alessandro; Lara-Hernandez, Jose Antonio; Thompson, James, eds., "Ongoing Appropriation: Invisible Seattle and Red May", Temporary Appropriation in Cities: Human Spatialisation in Public Spaces and Community Resilience, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 79–93, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32120-8_5, ISBN 978-3-030-32120-8, retrieved 2024-03-31
- ↑ Chua, June (2018-08-06). "A tar sands travelogue blends comic book art with investigative stories". rabble.ca. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ "B.C. authors Am Johal, Matt Hern, Elizabeth Woodworth, and Peter Carter pioneer new responses to climate crisis". The Georgia Straight. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ Gonick, Sophie (2017). "Review: Matt Hern, What a City Is For: Remaking the Politics of Displacement, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016" (PDF). Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography: 1–6 – via Wiley.
- ↑ Campbell, Charles (17 January 2017). "'What a City Is For': How We Can Find Our Way Home. In his new book, East Van writer Matt Hern looks at new and old ways of thinking about land ownership". The Tyee.
- ↑ Majavu, Mandisi (29 Mar 2016). "Book Review, One game at a time: Why sports matter". Sport in Society. 19 (7): 1105–1106. doi:10.1080/17430437.2016.1165422.
- ↑ "Changing On The Fly: Matt Hern and the Creative Beauty of Hockey on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ Jan 6, Ashley Fortier; Read, 2014 3 Min. "One game at a time: why sports matter". briarpatchmagazine.com. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ↑ Prey, Robert (2010). "Review of "Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future" (Matt Hern)". West Coast Line. 44 (3): 67.
- ↑ Kohn, Karen (2010). "Book Review: Common ground in a liquid city: essays in defense of an urban future". Counterpoise. 14 (3/4): 50–51. ProQuest 880565083 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ "Watch Yourself". www.akpress.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
- ↑ "Field Day | Matt Hern | Non-Fiction | Books | New Star Books Publisher, Vancouver British Columbia Canada, Newstarbooks, catalogue". www.newstarbooks.com. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
- ↑ Ostrowski, Marcia (1997). "Review: Deschooling Our Lives" (PDF). Electronic Green Journal. 1 (7). doi:10.5070/G31710291 – via California Digital Library.
See also[edit]
- Growing Without Schooling
- Critical pedagogy
- Car Free Day Vancouver
- City of Vancouver Book Award
- George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature
External links[edit]
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