Jean Doyon
Jean (John) is a PhD candidate in the Individualized Program (INDI) at Concordia University, a course lecturer, and a social entrepreneur who draws on a diversity of fields across and beyond the inter-transdisciplinary, environmental social sciences. Throughout his doctoral research, teaching, and entrepreneurial community work with different environmental organizations in the social economy (such as the collective garden, the Jardin collectif des Nations, he co-founded in 2010), Jean works toward a re-embedded, heterodox, renewed, and more comprehensive perspective (or theory) and practice (or praxis) of sustainability that strives to cultivate socio-economic activities and nature-society relations that nourish and sustain the regenerative thrivability or flourishing of social, environmental, and coupled social-ecological systems.
While the main theoretical component of his research identifies the main factors that contribute to the thrivability, well-being, and (true) prosperity of social, environmental, and coupled human-environmental systems, the second inter-transdisciplinary (action research) component seeks to identify the sustainability transition processes that various practitioners, (participatory) action-oriented researchers, and other professional consultants can use to best define, assist, catalyze, develop, sustain, and scale-up the social-ecological thrivability of participating organizations, stakeholders, and communities.
Supervisors: Satoshi Ikeda, Anna Kruzynski, and Don de Guerre
While the main theoretical component of his research identifies the main factors that contribute to the thrivability, well-being, and (true) prosperity of social, environmental, and coupled human-environmental systems, the second inter-transdisciplinary (action research) component seeks to identify the sustainability transition processes that various practitioners, (participatory) action-oriented researchers, and other professional consultants can use to best define, assist, catalyze, develop, sustain, and scale-up the social-ecological thrivability of participating organizations, stakeholders, and communities.
Supervisors: Satoshi Ikeda, Anna Kruzynski, and Don de Guerre
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To achieve this research objective, I will first present in this theoretical conference paper a more critical, Polanyian, historical, and environmental social science (weak/strong) reading of the sustainability movement(s). Subsequently, I will discuss and introduce more thoroughly the relevance of Polanyian concepts to the development of a “stronger,” heterodox, social-ecological, re-embedded, thriving (i.e., re-generative), substantive, and inter-transdisciplinary perspective (theory) and practice (praxis) of sustainability I call social-ecological thrivability (SET). Ultimately, the result of this theoretical, historical, Polanyian, and environmental social science investigation will lay the groundwork for a renewed perspective (theory) and praxis of sustainability that strives to cultivate social, socio-economic, and social-ecological relationships and practices that nourish and sustain the thrivability or flourishing of both social and more-than human environmental systems, and nature-society relations.
Teaching Documents by Jean Doyon
As such, the core reading material that we will cover in this course will provide the students with a critical
review and an interdisciplinary perspective on the past and possible future developments of the present
global food system.
In the hope of deriving lessons and innovative solutions to address the complex contemporary food system challenges faced locally and globally, the main objectives of this course are therefore to:
- Uncover the many ways food has been used and cultivated throughout history.
- Problematize and expand the concept of agriculture to make it more inclusive and less (non-)
Eurocentric.
- Examine and learn from “other” past (and persisting) sustainable agriculture and food system
heritages found in local, traditional, peasants and indigenous knowledge, practices and cultures
throughout the world.
various indicators of environmental impact based on farmer’s production methods, and the impact
these methods have on emissions to the environment. The goal is an introductory ability to assess
the environmental impact at the farm level.
To achieve this research objective, I will first present in this theoretical conference paper a more critical, Polanyian, historical, and environmental social science (weak/strong) reading of the sustainability movement(s). Subsequently, I will discuss and introduce more thoroughly the relevance of Polanyian concepts to the development of a “stronger,” heterodox, social-ecological, re-embedded, thriving (i.e., re-generative), substantive, and inter-transdisciplinary perspective (theory) and practice (praxis) of sustainability I call social-ecological thrivability (SET). Ultimately, the result of this theoretical, historical, Polanyian, and environmental social science investigation will lay the groundwork for a renewed perspective (theory) and praxis of sustainability that strives to cultivate social, socio-economic, and social-ecological relationships and practices that nourish and sustain the thrivability or flourishing of both social and more-than human environmental systems, and nature-society relations.
As such, the core reading material that we will cover in this course will provide the students with a critical
review and an interdisciplinary perspective on the past and possible future developments of the present
global food system.
In the hope of deriving lessons and innovative solutions to address the complex contemporary food system challenges faced locally and globally, the main objectives of this course are therefore to:
- Uncover the many ways food has been used and cultivated throughout history.
- Problematize and expand the concept of agriculture to make it more inclusive and less (non-)
Eurocentric.
- Examine and learn from “other” past (and persisting) sustainable agriculture and food system
heritages found in local, traditional, peasants and indigenous knowledge, practices and cultures
throughout the world.
various indicators of environmental impact based on farmer’s production methods, and the impact
these methods have on emissions to the environment. The goal is an introductory ability to assess
the environmental impact at the farm level.