Permacultures of transformation: steps to a cultural ecology of environmental action
This article examines a trend over the past two decades towards more explicit politicization in some areas of the ecovillage movement, particularly where covillages engage with related grassroots movements for environmental and social change. It does so using an expanded political ecology framewor...
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| description | This article examines a trend over the past two decades towards more explicit politicization in some areas of the ecovillage movement, particularly where covillages engage with related grassroots movements for environmental and social change. It does so using an expanded political ecology framework, also drawing upon 'Multi-level Perspective on Sustainability Transitions' and Gregory Bateson's Ecology of Mind. It argues that apparently apolitical focii on lifestyle change and personal development have in some cases given way to overt recognition of the need for global political change. It attributes this to the global political economy of sustainability becoming more evident and critiques of dominant social, political and economic regimes more compelling and widely accepted. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d984fc734bb84bed9bd94e584219071f2022-12-21T20:11:21ZengUniversity of Arizona LibrariesJournal of Political Ecology1073-04512018-04-0125110411910.2458/v25i1.2275822076Permacultures of transformation: steps to a cultural ecology of environmental actionThomas Henfrey0Lucy Ford1Schumacher InstituteOxford Brookes UniversityThis article examines a trend over the past two decades towards more explicit politicization in some areas of the ecovillage movement, particularly where covillages engage with related grassroots movements for environmental and social change. It does so using an expanded political ecology framework, also drawing upon 'Multi-level Perspective on Sustainability Transitions' and Gregory Bateson's Ecology of Mind. It argues that apparently apolitical focii on lifestyle change and personal development have in some cases given way to overt recognition of the need for global political change. It attributes this to the global political economy of sustainability becoming more evident and critiques of dominant social, political and economic regimes more compelling and widely accepted.https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/22758 |
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