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- Title
Embodying the environment in everyday life practices.
- Authors
Macnaghten, Phil
- Abstract
This paper suggests ways in which 'the environment' needs to be reconfigured so that it better resonates with how people are experiencing politics, nature and everyday life. Through empirical research on environmental concerns and everyday practices, this paper sketches a framework through which the values associated with contemporary environmentalism might be developed in a more reflexive relationship to wider transformations in society. In particular, the research critically evaluates the standard storyline of a 'global nature' under threat and in need of collective action by a global imagined community. In contrast to rhetorics of the global environment, this paper explores ways in which the environment is being embodied, valued and experienced in an array of social practices. The paper further outlines the significance of such embodied practices as significant yet undervalued points of connection for wider, global environmental issues.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTALISM; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; EVERYDAY life; NATURE; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Sociological Review, 2003, Vol 51, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-954X.00408