Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements

Editor list: Grasso, M.; Giugni, M.

Publication year: 2022

Pages: 434-450

ISBN: 978-0-367-42878-5

eISBN: 978-0-367-85568-0

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855680-33

Edition: 1st edition

Abstract: 

The focus of this chapter is the interplay between everyday life and environmentalism. It begins with highlighting how a growing number of people, individually and collectively, have started to (re)consider everyday life as an important locus for environmental change. It then discusses how contemporary environmental activism tends to encompass people’s everyday practices, consumption habits, and leisure activities. The following section examines, through the lens of social movement theory, why, how and when everyday practices started to be increasingly utilized as a way to address environmental problems. Subsequently, we exemplify two different pathways of everyday environmentalism attempting to set up alternative infrastructures for new material flows. The chapter concludes by discussing the potentials as well as the limits of everyday environmental activism.

Harvard Citation style: Forno, R. and Wahlen, S. (2022) Environmental activism and everyday life, in Grasso, M. and Giugni, M. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements. 1st edition. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, pp. 434-450. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855680-33

APA Citation style: Forno, R., & Wahlen, S. (2022). Environmental activism and everyday life. In Grasso, M., & Giugni, M. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements (1st edition, pp. 434-450). Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855680-33