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- Title
Transition as Cultural Revitalization: Exploring Social Motives for Environmental Movement Participation.
- Authors
Willow, Anna J.
- Abstract
This article explores the Transition movement for climate change resilience as a cultural revitalization movement that is unfolding in response to the unique problems and prospects of the Anthropocene era. Drawing on ethnographic research, I suggest that personal well-being and community cohesion are essential motives for environmental movement participation. As Transition participants work to generate more satisfying cultural options, they relieve existential angst, reclaim the possibility of a positive future, create a safe space for radical resistance, and engender a simultaneously local and global sense of community. Ultimately, I argue that embracing environmental and (inter)personal action as both complementary and inextricably intertwined is essential if we are to catalyze the broad behavioral changes needed to evade catastrophic climate change and socioecological collapse.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTALISM; CULTURAL maintenance; CULTURAL movements; SOCIAL change; PARTICIPATION; WATERFRONTS
- Publication
Nature & Culture, 2021, Vol 16, Issue 2, p13
- ISSN
1558-6073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/nc.2021.160202