Everyday Life Ecologies
Sustainability, Crisis, Resistance
Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2066-6 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2066-6 (ISBN)
Everyday life is a key space of socio-ecological transformation. This book, starting from an ethnographic journey, investigates trajectories of change and continuity in the context of crisis. The socio-material relationalities encountered are read as part of, and resisting to, capitalist logics of exploitation, appropriation, and waste.
Everyday Life Ecologies: Sustainability, Crisis, and Resistance is about those complex, sticky, but also open arrangements of bodies, objects, and plants that make up daily existence. The multiple and interlocking lines of a long capitalist crisis disrupt their normal flow: sometimes, they open opportunities for transformation, sometimes else, they foreclose horizons of change. In contrast with approaches that respond to environmental crisis by advocating “sustainable lifestyles” and “responsible behaviors,” Alice Dal Gobbo suggests that it is necessary to address the complex socio-material relationalities that constitute everyday ecologies. Beyond that, the book argues for their politicization, illuminating daily existence as embedded in capitalist relations of re/production. Combining political ecology and new materialist sensitivities, this book investigates the ways in which ecologically damaging logics are inscribed in everyday assemblages through their habitual rehearsal and libidinal hold. But it also points to how apparently banal acts of resistance embody and promote different logics, such as a logic of care and an ecological “aesth-ethics” of desire. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Northeast of Italy, this journey through the concrete matters and beings of daily life in crisis talks beyond this emplaced reality and dialogues with emerging forms of contestation and prefiguration that put socio-ecological reproduction at their center.
Everyday Life Ecologies: Sustainability, Crisis, and Resistance is about those complex, sticky, but also open arrangements of bodies, objects, and plants that make up daily existence. The multiple and interlocking lines of a long capitalist crisis disrupt their normal flow: sometimes, they open opportunities for transformation, sometimes else, they foreclose horizons of change. In contrast with approaches that respond to environmental crisis by advocating “sustainable lifestyles” and “responsible behaviors,” Alice Dal Gobbo suggests that it is necessary to address the complex socio-material relationalities that constitute everyday ecologies. Beyond that, the book argues for their politicization, illuminating daily existence as embedded in capitalist relations of re/production. Combining political ecology and new materialist sensitivities, this book investigates the ways in which ecologically damaging logics are inscribed in everyday assemblages through their habitual rehearsal and libidinal hold. But it also points to how apparently banal acts of resistance embody and promote different logics, such as a logic of care and an ecological “aesth-ethics” of desire. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Northeast of Italy, this journey through the concrete matters and beings of daily life in crisis talks beyond this emplaced reality and dialogues with emerging forms of contestation and prefiguration that put socio-ecological reproduction at their center.
Alice Dal Gobbo is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, Trento University.
Contents
Introduction: Sustainability and Transitions “in Crisis”
Chapter 1. Everyday Life and Socio-ecological Reproduction: Crisis and Environmental (In)Justice
Chapter 2. The Capitalist Organisation of Life
Chapter 3. The Matters, Flows, and Beings of Everyday Life
Chapter 4. Alternatives
Chapter 5. Taking Stock
Conclusions. An-other Ecology of Desire
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Environment and Society |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 522 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-2066-5 / 1666920665 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-2066-6 / 9781666920666 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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