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Grassroots Ecologies of Value: Environmental Conflict and Social Reproduction in Southern Italy
Author(s) -
Pusceddu Antonio Maria
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/anti.12609
Subject(s) - grassroots , environmentalism , reproduction , dignity , value (mathematics) , underpinning , sociology , social reproduction , environmental ethics , political science , ecology , social science , law , politics , social capital , philosophy , civil engineering , machine learning , computer science , biology , engineering
In this article I examine socio‐environmental conflicts through the category of value. Drawing from a single case study, an industrial city in southern Italy, I address the revaluation projects underpinning the conflict around socio‐ecological arrangements that are considered unfair, unsustainable and detrimental to life. Focusing on the trajectory of local environmentalism and the specific case of a women group, the article shows how the intensification of the socio‐ecological crisis prompted the shift of environmental conflicts from the sphere of production to the broader relations of social reproduction. I propose to analyse this shift through the concept of grassroots ecologies of value, which outlines a framework for thinking about how people deal with the socio‐environmental contradictions in which they live, and their struggles for dignity and worth.