Everyday Life Ecologies

Alice Dal Gobbo

doi:10.5771/9781666920673

Summary

Everyday Life Ecologies: Sustainability, Crisis, 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.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2066-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2067-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 256
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Sustainability and Transitions “in Crisis” No access Pages 1 - 16
1. Everyday Life . . . in Crisis No access
2. Environmental Justice No access
3. Neoliberal Governmentality No access
4. Practices No access
5. Meanings and Subjectivities No access
6. Assemblages of Desire and Subjectivity No access
7. Epistemology and Qualitative Research, After All No access
8. Notes No access
1. Labor No access
2. Leisure No access
3. Care No access
4. The Self No access
5. Notes No access
1. Energy No access
2. Technology No access
3. Nonhuman Animals No access
4. Waste No access
5. Notes No access
1. Sufficiency No access
2. Localizing Economies No access
3. Environmental Moralities No access
4. The Aesth-ethics of Desire No access
5. Notes No access
1. Weaving Lines in and through the Crisis No access
2. Observations in Context No access
3. Limit and the Everyday as a Space of Radical Eco-social Change No access
4. Materialism, After All . . . No access
An-other Ecology of Desire No access Pages 201 - 208
Bibliography No access Pages 209 - 228
Index No access Pages 229 - 254
About the Author No access Pages 255 - 256