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Democrazia senza crescita. L'ecologia politica del movimento degli Indignados
No full textIl lavoro si focalizza su un caso studio approfondito e longitudinale sul movimento degli Indignados a Barcellona per far luce sui processi alla base delle trasformazioni socio–ecologiche che il movimento ha generato nel tessuto urbano. Usando un approccio etnografico e un quadro teorico composito costituito da studi sui movimenti sociali, sull’ecologia politica, sulla democrazia e sulla decrescita, si analizza l’ecologia politica del movimento, ossia le sue visioni democratiche alternative, gli immaginari radicali, le pratiche prefigurative e di produzione dello spazio nei quartieri. L’immaginazione radicale del movimento degli Indignados viene usata per esplorare e comprendere come la democrazia possa essere pensata e praticata senza crescita e il ruolo dei movimenti nelle trasformazioni socio–ecologiche
The Indignados as a Socio‐Environmental Movement: Framing the Crisis and Democracy
No full textThis study analyses the framing processes of the Indignados movement in Barcelona, as an
exemplar of the latest wave of protests, and argues that it expresses a new ecological–economic
way out of the crisis. It finds that the movement was not just a reaction to the economic crisis
and austerity policies, but that it put forward a metapolitical critique of the social imaginary and
(neo)liberal representative democracy. The diagnostic frames of the movement denunciate the
subjugation of politics and justice to economics, and reject the logic of economism. The prognostic
frames of the movement advance a vision of socio-ecological sustainability and of ‘real
democracy’, each articulated differently by a ‘pragmatist’ and an ‘autonomist’ faction within
the movement. It argues that frames are overarching outer boundaries that accommodate
different ideologies. Ideologies can nevertheless also be put into question by antagonizing
frames. Furthermore, through the lens of the Indignados critique, the distinction between
materialist and post-materialist values that characterizes the New Social Movement literature
is criticized, as ‘real democracy’ is connected to social and environmental justice as well as to
a critique of economism and the ‘imperial mode of living’. Copyright©2016 John Wiley & Sons,
Ltd and ERP Environmen
The Limits of Liberal Democracy
No full textThis critical commentary discusses Stephan Lessenich’s recent work on democracy. It argues that—to understand the structural boundaries of welfare capitalist democracy—we must critically unearth the limits of liberal democracy. This article first maintains that the absence of an
economic democratization dimension is an outcome of liberal democracy’s shrinking of the meaning of the political. It next claims that defining democracy in terms of rights does not duly consider how these unfolded historically and recently, nor clarifies their relation with negative freedom. The article then contends that the environmentally destructive dialectic of democracy
and the belittlement of reproductive work stem from the constitution of a narrowly defined economic sphere, from which “reproductive activities” are excluded. Finally, the text reflects on what “democratizing democracy” should entail
Untangling the radical imaginaries of the Indignados’ movement: commons, autonomy and ecologism
Full text linkUnder regimes of austerity, social movements' transformative eco-politics may appear endangered. What kinds of environmentalism and radical imaginaries can unfold in social movements in crisis-ridden societies? I focus on the ‘move-ment of the squares’ during its post-encampment phase, with a case study of three urban projects of the Indignados movement in Barcelona. Observation of these projects reveals the importance of three common and intertwined radical imaginaries embodied in participants’ social practices and orienting their future visions: the commons, autonomy, and ecologism. The ecologism imaginary cannot be properly understood if disembedded from the other two: the ‘Indignant’ projects constitute community structures re-embedding (re)produc-tion, jointly covering and generating needs differently, in response to the global capitalist forces that are threatening their social reproduction. Eco-politics can only be plausibly transformative if it is able to articulate a politics of intersec-tionality linking social reproduction with ecological interconnectedness and struggles against dispossessions and social injustice
The Redefinition and Co-Production of Public Services by Urban Movements. The Can Batlló Social Innovation in Barcelona
No full textA wealth of social innovations sprang up in recent years in Southern Europe in the bosom of urban movements to cover citizens´ needs from below. Reacting to the commodification of the neoliberal city and the increasing dismantling of the welfare state, they provide public services and interrelate in var-ious forms with state authorities. Drawing on the outstanding social innovation case of Can Batlló (CB) in the city of Barcelona, a 14-ha former factory including more than 30 different projects and involving more than 350 activists, this paper analyses how social movements are redefining "the public" in the articulation between institutionalization, public service co-production, disruptive repertoires of action, and autonomy. It argues that this multiplicity of strategies and the strength of the movement helped not only to avoid turning the CB social innovation into a neoliberal rollout strategy, but even to act as a safety cordon against austerity politics. Affecting the boundaries of the legal-institutional framework, and rejecting the conflation of "public goods" with "state goods", CB organizes public services provision and planning in a more democratic form, pressuring the government to deliver the promised public services, while reclaim-ing them as commons that activists contribute building and designing. CB´s movement dimension and rootedness in the neighbourhood ensure the prioritisation of public and neighbourhood concerns over short-term, particularistic, and organizational survival interests.<br /
Die Grenzen der liberalen Demokratie: Aussichten auf eine Demokratisierung der Demokratie
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Sustainability Culture, Environmental Activism and Political Ideology Among Young Adults: A Survey on Students at the University of Ferrara
No full textThe 2018/2019 climate mobilisation have vigorously questioned the consensus about the sustainability paradigm that has been hegemonic since the 1980, politicising the environmental issue in the public debate, and representing a ‘political epiphany’ for an entire generation. How has this movement influenced young people’s interest for environmental issues, what is the extent and type of their environmental concern, what are their cognitive interpretations of the ecological crisis and solutions to it, and how they relate to environmental mobilisations? This article aims to address these questions by means of a survey distributed to students at the University of Ferrara (1005 responses), relating these factors to political ideology. It finds that young adults are extremely concerned about the ecological crisis. A majoritarian belief can be discerned that structural solutions are deemed as required, such as prioritising environmental protection even at the cost of economic growth, transforming the mode of production and consumption, and reducing social inequalities. Furthermore, while climate sceptical positions are by far marginal, there is a widespread critical position towards the capability of science and technological innovation to tackle the climate crisis,
and a sweeping belief of the necessity of individual lifestyle changes. With the notable exception of the latter two, all these beliefs are correlated with political ideology, showing the importance of political positioning vis-à-vis the environmental question. Finally, a broad feeling of hopelessness and ‘agencylessness’ towards the future can be discerned, with a low confidence about the transformative role of social movements
vis-à-vis the ecological transition, which is however balanced by two fifth of students mobilising in environmental protest
Protagonismo sindacale verso le Transizione Giusta a Civitavecchia
No full textLa partecipazione dei lavoratori e delle comunità coinvolte è stata identificata come elemento chiave nei processi di Transizione Giusta. Inoltre, la letteratura degli Environmental Labour Studies ha indagato alcune delle condizioni contestuali e i motivi per cui i sindacati a volte si oppongono o ritardano le transizioni ecologiche, e altre volte le supportano con un ruolo
trasformativo. Questo articolo analizza un caso di transizione energetica dal carbone in Italia con una forte pertecipazione "dal basso", la centrale elettrica a carbone Enel di Torrevaldaliga Nord
(Civitavecchia) sotto il controllo Enel, in cui ha giocato un ruolo di rilievo il protagonismo sindacale. Il contributo cerca di far luce sui processi attraverso i quali si è sviluppato questo protagonismo, tale da costruire una negoziazione sociale nel territorio con le Istituzioni nella direzione di una Transizione Giusta, grazie all'apporto essenziale di due fattori precipui - la
valorizzazione della cooperazione con esperti e saperi eterogenei, e la coalizione tra sindacati e organizzazioni ambientaliste - focalizzandosi in particolar modo su un anno di snodo centrale, il 2019. Il saggio rappresenta un work in progress, presentando alcuni risultati di una prima fase di
ricerca sul campo che ha permesso di raccogliere 33 interviste semi-strutturate
Per un approccio ontologico alla prefigurazione ecologica
No full textL’articolo avanza una proposta teorico-metodologica per lo studio della prefigurazione ecologica, cioè quel tipo di attivismo ambientalista ispirato dall’ecologismo e caratterizzato da una visione interstiziale del cambiamento sociale, che si concretizza nella creazione di economie locali alternative, socialmente
ed ecologicamente sostenibili. Dopo una discussione dei principali approcci alla prefigurazione ecologica come «ecotopia» e come «nuovo ambientalismo del quotidiano», l’articolo presenta una prospettiva di “politica ontologica”, incentrata, da un lato, sull’analisi delle pratiche alternative del valore “performate” nelle iniziative di prefigurazione ecologica e, dall’altro,
degli immaginari che le mettono in relazione a una visione di società ecologica. L’attenzione alla dimensione ontologica porta in evidenza che la posta in gioco della prefigurazione ecologica risiede non tanto nel far esistere nel presente un futuro già anticipato nelle forme della sua realizzazione, quanto nel
rendere accessibile un potenziale di alternativa ontologica che è già insito nel presente, e la cui attivazione permette di aprire uno spazio di immaginazione radicale del futuro. Allo stesso tempo, come lo discuteremo a partire dal caso del movimento “ecotopico” della permacultura, questa prospettiva fornisce
alcune chiavi interpretative promettenti per analizzare il diverso potenziale «trasgressivo» delle iniziative di prefigurazione ecologica.This contribution advances a theoretical-methodological proposal for the study of ecological prefiguration, which is a form of environmental activism inspired by ecologism and characterized by an interstitial vision of social change conducive to the creation of alternative, socially and ecologically sustainable local economies. After a discussion of the current approaches to ecological prefiguration as «ecotopia» and «new environmentalism of everyday life», the article introduces an “ontological politics” perspective, centered upon, on the one hand, the analysis of the alternative value practices “performed” in prefigurative initiatives and, on the other hand, the imaginaries that relate them to a vision of ecological society. The focus on the ontological dimension shows that what is at stake in ecological prefiguration is not so
much the realization of an anticipated future in the present but rather the disclosure of a potential of ontological alternative that is already inherent in the present, and whose activation allows to open a space for the radical imagination of the future. At the same time, as we discuss starting from the case of the “ecotopian” movement of permaculture, this perspective provides some interpretative keys to understand the different “transgressive” potential of ecological prefiguration initiatives
Sulla desiderabilità del lavoro neghentropico. L’importanza dei processi di costruzione di senso nella comprensione delle dinamiche del capitalismo e della sua critica [On the desirability of negentropic labor: The importance of sense-making processes in understanding the dynamics of capitalism and its critique]
No full textThe commentary critically addresses Emanuele Leonardi's arguments as exposed in Lavoro Natura Valore André Gorz tra marxismo e decrescita (Orthotes, 2017). In particular, it focuses on the role of sense making in the critique of capitalism, on the notion of negentropic labor and on the link between collective desirability and social metabolism
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