Recent Conference Presentations

Case, R. (2025). Momentum to build Upon? What community battles against corporate water bottling suggest about local activism and the "Right to the City." Oral presentation to the Le Grande Transition 2025 (@ UQAM, Montreal, PQ, May 29-June 1).

Case, R. (2024). Social ecology, hierarchy, and social action: Opportunities for eco-social work education. Oral presentation to the Canadian Association for Social Work Education Annual Conference 2024 (@ Congress, Montreal, PQ, June 17-20).

Case, R. (2024). The potentialities of local activism for sustaining shared futures. Oral presentation (sole presenter) to the Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference 2024 (@ Congress, Montreal, PQ, June 12-14).

Case, R. & Lindamood, D. (2023). We protect what we love: What battles against corporate water bottling tell us about the struggle for sustainability. Oral presentation to Sustainability, Transdisciplinary Theory, and Action Conference (University of Toronto, Mississauga, October 11).

Case, R. & Barrett, B. (2021). Could local environmental activism be a pathway to direct democracy at the municipal level? Reflections from water activism in Wellington County, Ontario. Oral presentation to Conference 2021 - Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (international, online, October 30).

Case, R. (2021). Reimagining connections: Lessons for community engagement from Ontario's battle over bottled water. The Sustainability Network - Conference 2021 (US based, online, January 28).

Case, R. (2019). Getting activism started: The founding of the Wellington Water Watchers and the battle against water bottling. Oral presentation (sole presenter) to the Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference 2019 (@ Congress, Vancouver, BC, June 3-5).

Case, R. (2019). Social Work, Social Ecology, and the Battle Over Water Bottling in Ontario. Oral presentation (sole presenter) to the Canadian Association for Social Work Education Annual Conference 2019 (@ Congress, Vancouver, BC, June 3-5).

Tester, F. & Case, R. (2019). Planetary limits to anti-oppressive practice in a modern world. Oral presentation (co-presenter) to the Canadian Association for Social Work Education Annual Conference 2019 (@ Congress, Vancouver, BC, June 3-5).

Case, R. & Jaffee, D. (2017). When the well runs dry: Scarcity narratives and water activism in Ontario, Canada. Oral presentation (sole presenter) to the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference 2017 (Montreal, PQ, August 11-16).

Case, R. (2017). From engagement to resistance: The pyramid of engagement and water activism in two Canadian communities. Workshop Lead at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research & Action (Ottawa, ON, June 21-24).

Mulvale, J., Frankel, S., & Case, R. (2017). Panel: Social Work and the Environment: Education, Mobilisation, and Policy Innovation. Panel Presentation (sole presenter): "Community Engagement, Social Work and the Environment." Canadian Association for Social Work Education Annual Conference 2017 (@ Congress, Toronto, ON, May 30-June 1).

Case, R. (2017). From local engagement to glocal resistance: Insights from community-based water activism in two Canadian communities. Oral presentation to the Canadian Association for Social Work Education Annual Conference 2017 (@ Congress, Toronto, ON, May 30-June 1).

Van Katwyk, T., & Case, R. A. (2017). Re-visioning scholarship for social justice: Addressing university-based aversion to prompt meaningful community-based scholarship. Oral presentation (co-presenter) to York University School of Social Work's 10th Annual Social Work Research Symposium: Subversive Action: (Re)visioning Social Justice ‘Work’ in Social Work Research (Toronto, ON, April 21)