Montreal, Canada 08-05-1970
Period of activity: From 1989 until Still active
Geographical classification: America > Canada
Socio-cultural movements
Late modern period / Contemporary period > Feminism
Late modern period / Contemporary period > Socio-political movements > Environmentalism
Groups by dedication
Activists > Feminists (activists)
Activists > Ecologists (activists)
Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
Context of feminine creation
Naomi Klein connects through her activism with different people.
Due to her criticism of capitalism and globalization she connects with figures such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Susan George, Ignacio Ramonet, Michael Moore, Angela Davis or Esther Vivas.
Within the environmental crisis and the development model, her predecessors are Rachel Carson or Vandana Shiva, and among her contemporaries stand out Berta Cáceres, Greta Thunberg, Tamsin Omond or Yayo Herrero.
Naomi Klein is an author, journalist, and social activist. She has written five books criticizing the capitalist system, globalization, patriarchy or aggression against the environment. She is known for her analytical and activist work and is considered one of the most visible and influential figures of the American left.
Naomi Klein was born in Montreal, in the province of Quebec, and grew up in a pacifist Jewish family. In 1967, her parents, supporters of the hippie movement, were forced to move from the United States to Montreal because of their opposition to the Vietnam War.
During her childhood and adolescence, Klein considered it "very oppressive to have a very active feminist mother", so she rejected politics and turned to consumerism. Klein spent a lot of time in shopping malls, obsessed with designer clothes.
Two events prompted her to change her attitude. The first was the heart attack suffered by her mother, Bonnie, when Klein was 17 years old and preparing to go to the University of Toronto to study philosophy and literature. Along with her brother and father, Klein took care of Bonnie while she was recovering in the hospital, putting her studies on hold for a year. The second event was the Montreal Polytechnic School massacre, which took place while Naomi Klein was in her first year at the University of Toronto. This attack on female engineering students caused her to throw herself into feminism.
In the late 1980s, Klein organized campaigns to facilitate gender visibility and to fight sexual assault. Klein dropped out of college to work as an intern at the Toronto Globe and Mail and later as an editor at This Magazine, a political magazine. During these years she forged contacts with new groups of young political activists who made her aware of the process of massive globalization at the end of the 1990s.
Klein has received numerous awards throughout her career, both for her writing and for her environmental activism, including the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the Sydney Peace Prize.
Wikipedia, 18/02/2022, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein
- No logo (2000)
- Faces and windows (2002)
- La toma (2004) Documentary.
-The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) In this work she affirms that, after a great political, economic, social or environmental disaster, the immediacy of the response is prioritized over its deep analysis and the result is the imposition of unwanted free market policies that are unrelated to the problem. She argues that some of these shocks are encouraged or premeditated and that this doctrine is the last of capitalism's “creation-destroying” phases.
-This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014)
- Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (2017)
Wikipedia, 18/03/2022, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein
Naomi Klein can be studied in the subject of history of 4th of ESO, in the block dedicated to the 21st century and its challenges where, among other topics, the environmental crisis, globalization or the crisis of capitalism are dealt with.
It is possible to work in Secondary Education for Adults, Module III.
The author has analyzed and criticized different inequalities and conflicts that have arisen in the current era. She exposes how our capitalist economic system collides with human and environmental needs and rights.
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