Everyday Life Ecologies: Sustainability, Crisis, Resistance

Everyday Life Ecologies explores the complex socio-material relationships that constitute everyday ecologies and advocates for their politicization. It investigates how ecologically damaging logics are inscribed in everyday assemblages through their habitual rehearsal and libidinal hold, and how seemingly banal acts of resistance embody and promote different logics, such as a logic of care and an ecological "aesth-ethics" of desire.

Format: Hardback
Length: 266 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Everyday Life Ecologies: Sustainability, Crisis, and Resistance delves into the intricate web of bodies, objects, and plants that constitute our daily existence. The multifaceted and interconnected lines of a protracted capitalist crisis disrupt their usual flow, sometimes offering opportunities for transformation and other times closing the horizons of change. In contrast to approaches that advocate "sustainable lifestyles" and "responsible behaviors" in response to environmental crises, Alice Dal Gobbo proposes that we must address the complex socio-material relationalities that form the foundation of everyday ecologies.

Beyond this, the book advocates for the politicization of everyday ecologies, illuminating how our daily lives are intricately entwined with capitalist relations of re/production. By blending political ecology and new materialist sensibilities, the book explores how ecologically harmful logics are inscribed in our everyday assemblages through habitual rehearsal and libidinal hold. However, it also highlights how seemingly mundane acts of resistance can embody and promote alternative logics, such as a logic of care and an ecological "aesth-ethics" of desire.

This book, based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Northeast of Italy, takes us on a journey through the concrete matters and beings of daily life in crisis. It goes beyond this localized reality and engages in dialogue with emerging forms of contestation and prefiguration that center socio-ecological reproduction. Through its exploration, Everyday Life Ecologies offers valuable insights into the complexities of sustainability, crisis, and resistance, and provides a framework for understanding how we can navigate these challenges and work towards a more just and sustainable future.

Weight: 554g
Dimension: 160 x 237 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666920666