Everyday Life Ecologies

"""Alice dal Gobbo has given us a sensuous ethnology, a passionate materialist sociology. Read this book; then read it again. It is teeming with ideas and charts new ground in the emerging psycho-social study of ecopolitical change."" ""Alice Dal Gobbo leads us on an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated journey through everyday life ecologies. The author moves between cars, wood stoves, tango lessons, and layoffs, showing the entanglements of capitalist oppression and the multifold practices of intimate resistance. A must-read book to understand that, as the author beautifully states, 'there is no environmental sustainability without the sustainability of the desiring, fleshy, aspects of (everyday) life.'"" ""In Everyday Life Ecologies: Sustainability, Crisis, Resistance, Alice Dal Gobbo explores with sensitivity, insight, empathy, and resonance the everyday lives of ordinary people living and struggling with crisis and precariousness, while also trying to find more sustainable ways of life. She pays careful attention to the embedded reality of the necropolitical capitalist system through showing the many ways in which the economic crisis, often adding to previous conditions of vulnerability and marginalisation, causes depression, isolation, and suffering. She reveals the many ways in which the vital and desiring energy of bodies, with its permeability and openness to becoming, finds ways of repairing social and ecological relationships, of circulating again and generating everyday patterns that embody a heightened awareness of human nature as an ecological nature, that is, a mode of existence through assemblages that are more than human."""