{"id":46884,"date":"2017-09-28T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46884"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:11","slug":"ruebottom-auster-how-a-rock-concert-inspires-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/09\/ruebottom-auster-how-a-rock-concert-inspires-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"RUEBOTTOM, AUSTER: How a rock concert inspires social change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trish Ruebottom, a Brock assistant professor of strategic management, recently co-wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-a-rock-concert-inspires-social-change-84513?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2028%202017&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2028%202017+CID_f0d8b907b0119b5b214ae35fc0fe88f0&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=How%20a%20rock%20concert%20inspires%20social%20change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a piece published in The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0about an annual concert, We Day, and its ability to create a community of &#8216;change-makers.&#8217; The piece was co-authored by Ellen Auster, a professor of strategic management at York University.<\/p>\n<p>Ruebottom and Auster write:<\/p>\n<p><em>The world is awash with massive inter-sectional social problems, from devastating\u00a0hurricanes and tsunamis driven by climate change\u00a0to the\u00a0refugee crisis, racism and the rise of\u00a0white nationalism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have a huge need for widespread social change. And this includes all of us changing the way we live if we\u2019re going to truly address any of these issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yet many of us seem content to simply continue on with our lives. We are either actively trying to maintain the status quo or pursuing our own self interests; and we are only able to see the world from our own perspectives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How can we shake up ourselves and our neighbours in our everyday lives in order to get everyone involved in creating social change?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-a-rock-concert-inspires-social-change-84513?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2028%202017&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2028%202017+CID_f0d8b907b0119b5b214ae35fc0fe88f0&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=How%20a%20rock%20concert%20inspires%20social%20change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trish Ruebottom, a Brock assistant professor of strategic management, recently co-wrote a piece published in The Conversation\u00a0about an annual concert, We Day, and its ability to create a community of &#8216;change-makers.&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6],"tags":[5830,594,5829,5512,4026],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46885,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884\/revisions\/46885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}