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词条 Matt Hern
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. Community organizing

  4. Personal

  5. Selected publications

  6. References

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Matt Hern is a community organizer, independent scholar, writer and activist based in East Vancouver, British Columbia who is known for his work in radical urbanism, community development, ecology and alternative forms of education.

He has founded a wide range of community projects, initiatives and institutions. He is currently the co-founder and co-director of Solid State Community Industries which is building a network of workers' co-operatives with youth from newcomer and racialized families.

Hern teaches at multiple universities, lectures globally and is widely-referenced in radical political and social discourses. His writing has been published on all six continents and translated into fourteen languages.

Early life and education

Hern was born in Victoria and grew up in rural British Columbia. After attending Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, he briefly 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, and shortly after became a faculty member. Hern holds a PhD in Urban Studies.

Career

Hern is well known for his books, articles and lectures, and he speaks widely in various forums and media. His 2016 book What a City is For (MIT Press) interrogates and charts the ongoing aggressive dispersal of Portland’s Black community in the context of perhaps North America’s most liberal city. In 2018 Hern published Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: In Search of an Ecological Future (MIT Press, 2018). The book is co-authored with Am Johal and features cartoons and drawings by Joe Sacco. The book charts multiple trips through the tar sands of northern Alberta and affected Indigenous communities. His 2019 title On this Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land was co-authored with Selena, Sadie and Daisy Couture.

Hern has published seven earlier books, including: One Game at a Time (AK Press, 2014) which is a radical critique and defense of sports, Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future (AK Press, 2009) which explores participatory urbanism in the context of his home city, Field Day (New Star, 2003), and Watch Yourself (New Star, 2007). He has also edited three collections including: Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook for Youth (AK Press, 2013), Everywhere All The Time (AK Press, 2008), and Deschooling Our Lives (New Star, 1996).

Community organizing

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. Currently Hern is directing a new project he has co-founded: Solid State Industries, a creative production co-operative and creative hub with newcomer and racialized migrant youth. The project derives inspiration from co-operative and autonomist movements, and is building a network of youth run and owned workers co-operatives.

Hern has also founded a number of other community projects and initiatives, the best-known of which is Car-Free Day Vancouver. 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.

Personal

Hern lives in East Vancouver with his partner, daughters, adopted children and extended family.

Selected publications

Books
  • (https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/on-this-patch-of-grass On this Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land), Fernwood Press, 2019
  • [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/global-warming-and-sweetness-life Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale], MIT Press 2018
  • [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/what-city What a City is For: Remaking the Politics of Displacement], MIT Press, 2016
  • One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter, AK Press, 2013.
  • Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook for Youth. AK Press, 2012. (Editor).
  • Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, AK Press, 2009.
  • Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader, AK Press, 2008. (Editor).
  • Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn't Always Better, New Star Books, 2007.
  • Field Day: Getting Society Out of School, New Star Books, 2003.
  • Deschooling Our Lives, New Society Publishers, 1996. (Editor).
Selected Articles, Essays, Interviews
  • "https://thebaffler.com/latest/mountain-of-everything-hern", The Baffler, 2018
  • "https://www.straight.com/news/956136/east-vancouver-scholar-matt-hern-highlights-bigger-issues-underlying-gentrification", Georgia Straight", 2017
  • "https://www.straight.com/news/582691/matt-hern-fencing-stolen-property-it-relates-vancouvers-housing-market", "Georgia Straight", 2017
  • "http://mitdisplacement.org/symposium-matt-hern", MIT Displacement Lab, 2017
  • "https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/bc-election-post-mortem-fifteen-perspectives-on-the-campaign-and-its-afterm", "Canadian Dimension", 2017
  • "https://roarmag.org/magazine/gentrification-displacement-race-portland/", "ROAR Magazine", 2016
  • "[https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/02/11/OlympicsMakeBetterCity/ Did the Olympics Make Vancouver a Better City?]", The Tyee, February 11, 2011
  • "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130326042023/http://www.vanmag.com/News_and_Features/Ready_to_Rumble_UFC_Comes_to_Vancouver Ready to Rumble: UFC Comes to Vancouver]", Vancouver Magazine, Nov 1, 2009.
  • "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110826171026/http://www.vanmag.com/articles/08mar/Hern.shtml Citizen Hern]" (Feature on Matt Hern), Vancouver Magazine, Mar 1, 2008
  • "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkxJSIIi-QI Matt Hern talk on car free days]", COPE Ideas Conference, December 1, 2007.
  • "[https://www.straight.com/article-110413/matt-hern Georgia Straight Interview with Matt Hern], The Georgia Straight, September 20, 2007.

References

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