By Alex Loftus
ISBN-10: 0816665710
ISBN-13: 9780816665716
ISBN-10: 0816665729
ISBN-13: 9780816665723
Everyday Environmentalism develops a talk among marxist theories of lifestyle and up to date paintings in city political ecology, arguing for a philosophy of praxis relating to the politics of city environments. Grounding its theoretical debate in empirical reviews of struggles to acquire water within the casual settlements of Durban, South Africa, in addition to within the inventive acts of rebel artwork activists in London, Alex Loftus builds at the paintings of key marxist thinkers to redefine “environmental politics.”
A marxist philosophy of praxis—that world-changing rules emerge from the acts of daily people—undergirds the ebook. Our day-by-day truth, writes Loftus, is woven out of the entanglements of social and traditional family members, and as one of these type of environmental politics is instantly integrated into our lives. however, one impact of the general public acceptance of world environmental switch, asserts Loftus, has been a resurgence of dualistic understandings of the area: for instance, that nature is causing revenge on conceited human societies.
This formidable paintings reformulates—with the help of such philosophers as Lukács, Gramsci, Lefebvre, and others—a politics of our surroundings during which daily subjectivity is on the center of a progressive politics.
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