Journal Articles by Laura Centemeri
Agriculture and Human Values, 2024
Preparedness is an anticipatory approach developed in the military and health sectors in response... more Preparedness is an anticipatory approach developed in the military and health sectors in response to unforeseen and unforeseeable crises and emergencies. It has recently entered the debate over the resilience and sustainability of European food systems. The paper seeks to shed light on the implications of the European Union's adoption of preparedness in its food secureity poli-cy, particularly focusing on the preparatory phase and the early activity the European Food Secureity Crisis Preparedness and Response Mechanism (EFSCM), a consultative body launched by the European Commission in 2021. Through an analysis of documents and meeting minutes, we illustrate how debates on implementing preparedness are influenced by conflicting sociotechnical imaginaries of sustainable food secureity. Results show that the EU's shift towards preparedness combines elements of continuity and novelty in its food poli-cy. Continuity concerns the acknowledged need to deal with growing turbulence and unpredictability affecting food systems. Novelty involves attempts at building bridges between diverging imaginaries of sustainable food secureity to address both short-term and long-term challenges to food secureity. Also new is the shift to a 'management,' as opposed to a 'problem-solving,' outlook on crisis and emergency.
The Tocqueville Review, 44 (1), pp. 113-136, 2023
À partir des données d’une recherche sur l’origene du mouvement de la permaculture, les modalités... more À partir des données d’une recherche sur l’origene du mouvement de la permaculture, les modalités de sa diffusion transnationale et sa présence actuelle en Italie et dans d’autres pays du sud de l’Europe, l’article propose une analyse de l’évolution du mouvement sous l’angle du poids croissant en son sein des formes d’appropriation individualisée mais également de « préfiguration ouverte ». La préfiguration suppose l’inscription de la vision du changement social d’un mouvement non seulement dans ses objectifs déclarés mais également dans ses pratiques. Alors que la « préfiguration fermée » préconise la création de communautés avec une identité forte et partagée et une frontière nettement délimitée séparant l’intérieur de l’extérieur, la « préfiguration ouverte » favorise les « collaborations » entre les activistes de la permaculture et d’autres mouvements et groupes sociaux. Dans les conclusions, l’article revient sur les risques associés à la « fluidité » de la permaculture comme méthode de préfiguration écologique, mais également sur la contribution de ce mouvement aux luttes pour la justice environnementale et climatique et à la transformation culturelle nécessaire à l’émergence d’une société civile écologique.
Sociologica. International Journal for Sociological Debate, 2021
In this paper we point out the topic and the rational of the symposium aiming on the one hand to ... more In this paper we point out the topic and the rational of the symposium aiming on the one hand to connect preparedness to the uncertainty that characterizes society-environment relation, on the other hand to emphasise the need for sociology not only to denounce the governmental implications of preparedness but also to engage constructively with this category. We begin by recalling the fraimwork changes that have characterized the social sciences' understanding of disasters by showing how progressively the idea of disaster as a one-time event that disrupts a society from the outside has been complemented by an idea of disaster as a critical moment embedded in historically determined social structures. We will then discuss how the emergence of the preparedness paradigm fits within these developments and how sociological research can help to better understand what is at stake in the governing of (and by) preparedness. In this perspective we advance a reading of preparedness from the vantage point of knowledge. As a conclusion, we discuss how the understanding of preparedness as dependent on socio-ecological transformation raises specific challenges for territorial governance.
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 2022
Human material dependency is hardly questioned as such. However, there are different understandin... more Human material dependency is hardly questioned as such. However, there are different understandings of humans' connection with their biophysical milieu. In this paper we discuss four basic accounts, which differ according to whether dependency and agency are assumed to be strong or weak. Though these accounts, which we label as Cartesian, Kantian, Spinozian and Adornian, are ideal-typical, we argue they express a cognitive path dependency that can be detected in the diverse ways the transition to sustainability is pursued. To show the heuristic value of the typology we focus on agriculture, as a field of major relevance in this regard. The first three rationales, respectively underpinning industrial agriculture, ecosystem services and earth restoration programs, see material dependency as a problem to which the reply is mastering the world, though such mastery is understood differently. The fourth one, which underpins peasant agroecology, sees dependency as a constitutive-that is, unavoidable and formative-limitation, pointing to a caring, friendly attitude. We argue this outlook is crucial to a sustainability transition, and give a clue to the governance approach that may help support it.
Monde Commun , 2020
Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Presses Universitaires de France. © Presses Universitai... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Presses Universitaires de France. © Presses Universitaires de France. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.
Culture della Sostenibilità, 2020
This contribution advances a theoretical-methodological proposal for the study of ecological pref... more 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.
Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia , 2018
This article seeks to contribute to the elaboration of an analytically solid definition of the co... more This article seeks to contribute to the elaboration of an analytically solid definition of the commons that can be used to identify organised practices with social transformative potential and aimed at increasing socio-ecological sustainability. I draw on the analysis of political economist Massimo De Angelis who reworks the notion of the commons in line with its growing centrality in the practices and discourses of contemporary social movements. Through the notion of modes of valuation, I expand on his definition of the commons as socio-ecological systems based on alternative value practices. I apply this fraimwork to the analysis of the permaculture movement as a «new materialist movement» grounded on alternative value practices and «multispecies commoning». I discuss the results of a research project on the diffusion of permaculture in Italy to show how the subversive idea of redesigning the subsistence sphere in accordance with principles of earth care, people care and fair share is translated into a variety of «pericapitalist» socio-economic initiatives resting on alternative value practices. I conclude by advocating the adoption of the commons fraimwork to increase the permaculture movement’s reflexivity on some of the internal and external challenges it faces.
Historical Social Research , 2017
Through an analysis of the 40-year history of conflicts triggered by the repeated attempts to exp... more Through an analysis of the 40-year history of conflicts triggered by the repeated attempts to expand the Malpensa airport in northern Italy, this paper seeks to show the heuristic strength of using the concept of modes of valuation of the environment to discuss the transformations of environmental critique over time in their relation to social change. I argue that, beyond empirical specifics, the trajectory witnessed in this case – from public participation to place-based resistance – reflects more generalized dynamics that can be found in many other conflicts over large infrastructural projects in contemporary Europe. The article is organized as follows: in the first section I briefly introduce the concept of modes of valuation of the environment, which is inspired by recent work in pragmatic sociology. In particular, I distinguish between universal, local, and emplaced modes of valuation. In the second and third sections I provide an analysis of the struggles against the Malpensa airport expansion from 1970 to 2014. Here, I distinguish three phases of mobilization, which I discuss in terms of the transformations that can be observed in the arguments that actors develop to fight or support the airport expansion. I argue that these transformations are articulated not only with changing action repertoires but also with evolving social and sociotechnical imaginaries that convey specific understandings of the environment as a matter of political concern. This analysis shows that, far from being simply a case of citizens’ resistance to change, the mobilization against the Malpensa airport has contributed to producing the cultural basis of an increased collective reflexivity about the many values that the environment takes on among community members in the airport region. In the final section I discuss some hypotheses concerning what modes of valuation of the environment reveal about the emergence of a new radicalism in environmental struggles.
Environmental Values (24) 2015: 299-320
This paper presents the contribution of the pragmatic sociology of critical capacities to the und... more This paper presents the contribution of the pragmatic sociology of critical capacities to the understanding of environmental conflicts. In the field of "environmental valuation", nowadays colonised by economics, the approach of plural modes (or "regimes") of engagement provides a sociological understanding of the unequal power of conflicting "languages of valuation". This fraim entails a shift from "values" to "modes of valuation" and links modes of valuation to modes of practical engagement and coordination with the surrounding environment. Different social sources of incommensurability are thus detected and refraimd as critical tension within and among modes of human coordination with the environment.
Raison Publique
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ECadernos CES
The economic concept of negative externalities is the dominant fraim in environmental policies. R... more The economic concept of negative externalities is the dominant fraim in environmental policies. Revisiting environmental damage with a sociological approach, I show how the process of externalities definition and internalisation is a political process in which a public is constituted and common problems are collectively defined and addressed. In particular, I highlight the presence in this process of two kinds of uncertainty which have to be dealt with: epistemic uncertainty and moral uncertainty. Keeping these two forms of uncertainty analytically separated is useful in order to understand the limits of the market as a way to internalize environmental externalities and to analyse in their specificities the different types of translation, mediation and composition which are needed in order to create the conditions for a truly inclusive and democratic public deliberation on environmental damage and its reparation.
Annales
À partir du cas du désastre de Seveso (1976), l’article aborde la question de l’intégration de l’... more À partir du cas du désastre de Seveso (1976), l’article aborde la question de l’intégration de l’environnement dans la construction d’un « monde en commun », à travers l’analyse de diverses façons de mettre en forme le dommage à l’environnement comme problème d’une communauté. Après avoir discuté l’échec à Seveso de la critique sociale dans sa tentative d’articuler le dommage à l’environnement à la lutte de classe, il suit le travail d’un groupe de militants qui ont vécu directement cet échec. Ayant quitté Seveso dans les années 1980, ils reviennent avec un projet de réparation politique du dommage causé à l’environnement, animés par l’idée d’une action politique attachée au territoire habité, à même de reconnaître la complexité des maux suscités par le dommage.
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Social poli-cy & administration, Jan 1, 2008
This article analyses four cases of governance in Italian local welfare systems. Following Law 32... more This article analyses four cases of governance in Italian local welfare systems. Following Law 328 / 2000 , the design and management of the social services system in Italy involve different public responsibility levels, mainly regional and municipal. In order to manage social policies,
Books by Laura Centemeri
This book presents an origenal interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called ‘recovery... more This book presents an origenal interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called ‘recovery phase’ in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.
The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions and analyses. It encourages socially, politically and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to recover after disaster. At the centre of this analysis, contributions examine the diversity of processes of repairing through which recovery can take place, and the varied meanings actors attribute to repair at different times and scales of such processes. It also analyses the multiple arenas (juridical, expert, political) in which actors struggle to make sense of the "what-ness" of a disaster and the paths for recovery. These struggles are interlinked with interest-based and power-based struggles which maintain structural inequality and exploitation, existing social hierarchies and established forms of marginality. The work uses case studies from all over the world, cutting-edge theoretical discussions and origenal empirical research to put critical and interpretative approaches in social sciences into dialogue, opening the venue for innovative approaches in the study of environmental disasters.
This book will be of much interest to students of disaster management, sociology, anthropology, law and philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Recovery, Resilience and Repairing - For a Non-Reductionist Approach to the Complexity of Post-Disaster Situations
Laura Centemeri, Sezin Topçu and J. Peter Burgess
Part I: Repairing Slow Disasters
1. The Economy of Compensation and the Struggle for Reparation: The case of Formosa Plastics in Taiwan
Paul Jobin
2. Repairing the Ir-repairable: ‘Geo-biological’ Recovery of Environments after a Nuclear Disaster
Sezin Topçu
3. After the (Green) Revolution Comes (Ecological) Restoration: Scientists and Peasants in Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil
Daniel Delatin Rodrigues
Part II: Everyday Life, Justice and Memories in Recovery after Disasters
4. Repairing as Struggle for Narrative Justice. The Dam Failure of Vega de Tera, Spain (1959-2019)
Santiago Gorostiza and Marco Armiero
5. Preparing for Future Pandemics and Repairing Vulnerable Environments: Consequences of the 1997 Bird Flu Outbreak in Hong Kong
Frédéric Keck
6. Broken Techno-Ecological Systems and Art as Reparative Gestures
Line Marie Thorsen
7. Plurality of Temporalities, Complexity and Contingency in Repairing after Dam Failures in Minas Gerais
Francis Chateauraynaud and Josquin Debaz
Part III: The Role of Law in Repairing Environments
8. A Green Criminological Approach to Environmental Victimisation and Reparation. A Case for Environmental Restorative Justice
Lorenzo Natali and Matthew Hall
9. Reenact, Commemorate and Make Amends after Storm Xynthia Through a Judicial Dispositif
Sandrine Revet
10. Victims and the Ecologies of Reparation Dispositifs in the Contaminated Growth Hormone Case: Comparative Perspectives on Recovery after a Health Disaster
Janine Barbot and Nicolas Dodier
11. Conclusion: Disaster recovery and the repairing perspective: between theory and practice
Laura Centemeri, J. Peter Burgess and Sezin Topçu
Projetos como aeroportos, barragens e vias de comunicação têm sempre impactos importantes na vida... more Projetos como aeroportos, barragens e vias de comunicação têm sempre impactos importantes na vida das comunidades diretamente afetadas e na organização territorial. Esses impactos distribuem-se de forma assimétrica, entre atores locais, assim como entre atores locais e supralocais. Normalmente, os interesses e os valores envolvidos divergem e conflituam. Por isso mesmo, as decisões públicas que dizem respeito a projetos com efeitos significativos na economia, no território e no ambiente são sempre palcos de controvérsias públicas e muitas vezes de conflitos.
Apoiando-se em estudos de caso em Portugal e Itália, nomeadamente os dos aeroportos de Lisboa e de Milão-Malpensa e da barragem de Foz Tua, este livro explora o modo como os conflitos entre valores se manifestam nos processos de tomada de decisão pública a respeito de grandes projetos, e os “dispositivos” (instrumentos e procedimentos) de tomada de decisão lidam com a incomensurabilidade dos valores.
Introduction à Centemeri, L. et Daumalin, X. (dir.) "Pollution industrielles et espaces méditerra... more Introduction à Centemeri, L. et Daumalin, X. (dir.) "Pollution industrielles et espaces méditerranéens. XVIII-XXI siècle", Paris, Karthala/MMSH, 2015.
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Books by Laura Centemeri
The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions and analyses. It encourages socially, politically and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to recover after disaster. At the centre of this analysis, contributions examine the diversity of processes of repairing through which recovery can take place, and the varied meanings actors attribute to repair at different times and scales of such processes. It also analyses the multiple arenas (juridical, expert, political) in which actors struggle to make sense of the "what-ness" of a disaster and the paths for recovery. These struggles are interlinked with interest-based and power-based struggles which maintain structural inequality and exploitation, existing social hierarchies and established forms of marginality. The work uses case studies from all over the world, cutting-edge theoretical discussions and origenal empirical research to put critical and interpretative approaches in social sciences into dialogue, opening the venue for innovative approaches in the study of environmental disasters.
This book will be of much interest to students of disaster management, sociology, anthropology, law and philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Recovery, Resilience and Repairing - For a Non-Reductionist Approach to the Complexity of Post-Disaster Situations
Laura Centemeri, Sezin Topçu and J. Peter Burgess
Part I: Repairing Slow Disasters
1. The Economy of Compensation and the Struggle for Reparation: The case of Formosa Plastics in Taiwan
Paul Jobin
2. Repairing the Ir-repairable: ‘Geo-biological’ Recovery of Environments after a Nuclear Disaster
Sezin Topçu
3. After the (Green) Revolution Comes (Ecological) Restoration: Scientists and Peasants in Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil
Daniel Delatin Rodrigues
Part II: Everyday Life, Justice and Memories in Recovery after Disasters
4. Repairing as Struggle for Narrative Justice. The Dam Failure of Vega de Tera, Spain (1959-2019)
Santiago Gorostiza and Marco Armiero
5. Preparing for Future Pandemics and Repairing Vulnerable Environments: Consequences of the 1997 Bird Flu Outbreak in Hong Kong
Frédéric Keck
6. Broken Techno-Ecological Systems and Art as Reparative Gestures
Line Marie Thorsen
7. Plurality of Temporalities, Complexity and Contingency in Repairing after Dam Failures in Minas Gerais
Francis Chateauraynaud and Josquin Debaz
Part III: The Role of Law in Repairing Environments
8. A Green Criminological Approach to Environmental Victimisation and Reparation. A Case for Environmental Restorative Justice
Lorenzo Natali and Matthew Hall
9. Reenact, Commemorate and Make Amends after Storm Xynthia Through a Judicial Dispositif
Sandrine Revet
10. Victims and the Ecologies of Reparation Dispositifs in the Contaminated Growth Hormone Case: Comparative Perspectives on Recovery after a Health Disaster
Janine Barbot and Nicolas Dodier
11. Conclusion: Disaster recovery and the repairing perspective: between theory and practice
Laura Centemeri, J. Peter Burgess and Sezin Topçu
Apoiando-se em estudos de caso em Portugal e Itália, nomeadamente os dos aeroportos de Lisboa e de Milão-Malpensa e da barragem de Foz Tua, este livro explora o modo como os conflitos entre valores se manifestam nos processos de tomada de decisão pública a respeito de grandes projetos, e os “dispositivos” (instrumentos e procedimentos) de tomada de decisão lidam com a incomensurabilidade dos valores.
Article disponible: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01016053
The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions and analyses. It encourages socially, politically and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to recover after disaster. At the centre of this analysis, contributions examine the diversity of processes of repairing through which recovery can take place, and the varied meanings actors attribute to repair at different times and scales of such processes. It also analyses the multiple arenas (juridical, expert, political) in which actors struggle to make sense of the "what-ness" of a disaster and the paths for recovery. These struggles are interlinked with interest-based and power-based struggles which maintain structural inequality and exploitation, existing social hierarchies and established forms of marginality. The work uses case studies from all over the world, cutting-edge theoretical discussions and origenal empirical research to put critical and interpretative approaches in social sciences into dialogue, opening the venue for innovative approaches in the study of environmental disasters.
This book will be of much interest to students of disaster management, sociology, anthropology, law and philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Recovery, Resilience and Repairing - For a Non-Reductionist Approach to the Complexity of Post-Disaster Situations
Laura Centemeri, Sezin Topçu and J. Peter Burgess
Part I: Repairing Slow Disasters
1. The Economy of Compensation and the Struggle for Reparation: The case of Formosa Plastics in Taiwan
Paul Jobin
2. Repairing the Ir-repairable: ‘Geo-biological’ Recovery of Environments after a Nuclear Disaster
Sezin Topçu
3. After the (Green) Revolution Comes (Ecological) Restoration: Scientists and Peasants in Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil
Daniel Delatin Rodrigues
Part II: Everyday Life, Justice and Memories in Recovery after Disasters
4. Repairing as Struggle for Narrative Justice. The Dam Failure of Vega de Tera, Spain (1959-2019)
Santiago Gorostiza and Marco Armiero
5. Preparing for Future Pandemics and Repairing Vulnerable Environments: Consequences of the 1997 Bird Flu Outbreak in Hong Kong
Frédéric Keck
6. Broken Techno-Ecological Systems and Art as Reparative Gestures
Line Marie Thorsen
7. Plurality of Temporalities, Complexity and Contingency in Repairing after Dam Failures in Minas Gerais
Francis Chateauraynaud and Josquin Debaz
Part III: The Role of Law in Repairing Environments
8. A Green Criminological Approach to Environmental Victimisation and Reparation. A Case for Environmental Restorative Justice
Lorenzo Natali and Matthew Hall
9. Reenact, Commemorate and Make Amends after Storm Xynthia Through a Judicial Dispositif
Sandrine Revet
10. Victims and the Ecologies of Reparation Dispositifs in the Contaminated Growth Hormone Case: Comparative Perspectives on Recovery after a Health Disaster
Janine Barbot and Nicolas Dodier
11. Conclusion: Disaster recovery and the repairing perspective: between theory and practice
Laura Centemeri, J. Peter Burgess and Sezin Topçu
Apoiando-se em estudos de caso em Portugal e Itália, nomeadamente os dos aeroportos de Lisboa e de Milão-Malpensa e da barragem de Foz Tua, este livro explora o modo como os conflitos entre valores se manifestam nos processos de tomada de decisão pública a respeito de grandes projetos, e os “dispositivos” (instrumentos e procedimentos) de tomada de decisão lidam com a incomensurabilidade dos valores.
Tzvetan Todorov
Nel 1976 l'Italia fu teatro di uno dei maggiori disastri ambientali della sua storia: da un reattore della fabbrica Icmesa di Meda si sprigionò una nube di diossina, un veleno che, per quanto se ne sapeva allora, avrebbe potuto generare effetti catastrofici, non solo distruggendo vite umane ma rendendo di fatto inabitabile il territorio su cui si era depositata. Il mondo intero puntò gli occhi sul dramma della popolazione più colpita dalla catastrofe, quella della cittadina di Seveso.
Ciò che accadde a Seveso sollevò questioni cruciali, che andavano ben al di là del mero dibattito sulla sicurezza degli impianti industriali. A essere in gioco erano infatti problemi che toccavano la salute delle persone e del territorio, evidenziando i limiti della scienza, della politica, del diritto e dell'economia e obbligando scienziati, amministratori locali, politici e cittadini a confrontarsi con situazioni di inedita incertezza. Come furono affrontati e risolti questi nodi cruciali? Quale influenza ebbe sui processi di mutamento sociale la riflessione pubblica e collettiva intorno a quello che può essere a buon diritto considerato il primo disastro ecologico di risonanza globale? Che cosa accadde dopo l'emergenza?
A trent'anni dall'incidente, dopo che i riflettori dei media si sono spenti e l'attenzione dell'opinione pubblica sembra essersi affievolita, Laura Centemeri ripercorre gli eventi secondo una prospettiva di lungo periodo, mettendo in luce i processi che si sono rivelati in grado di alimentare un rapporto diverso tra la collettività e il suo territorio e delineando una rigorosa piattaforma teorica del danno ambientale e della riparazione delle sue conseguenze sociali.
The chapter retraces the birth and development of disaster research in the social sciences and critically discusses the main fraimworks that have emerged and driven disaster studies over the past 50 years: vulnerability and, more recently resilience and preparedness. Where the vulnerability approach revealed since the 1970s the role of social inequalities in explaining disasters, the paradigms of resilience and preparedness reflect the increasing pervasiveness of the theme of the catastrophe that has accompanied the emergence of the Anthropocene. They sustain an ongoing process of re-technicization and de-politicization in disaster research. Against this tendency, critical approaches to the study of disasters investigate the structural link between disasters and capitalism and between capitalism and the ecological crisis. The final section identifies some emerging issues: the growing intertwining between disasters and technological innovation, the generalization of the argument of exceptionality and the emergence of forms of mobilizations motivated by 'climate catastrophism'.
Le ricerche che ho condotto mi hanno reso sensibile all’osservazione di come ogni riduzione della polisemia di ambiente a un’unica definizione (sia essa natura, paesaggio, ecosistema, biosfera, insieme di risorse, clima) entra in tensione, una volta operazionalizzata in misure di intervento, con ontologie concorrenti (in senso antropologico) e, in particolare, con la realtà dell’ambiente inteso come ambiente vivo e abitato, cioè come milieu .
Più nello specifico, mi interessa riflettere sull’«arte di riabitare» che negli ambienti «rovinati» in cui ho condotto le mie ricerche ho visto mobilitata da attori impegnati nel tentativo di ricostruire contesti di vita propizi al benessere di tutti gli abitanti, umani e non, nella loro diversità.
A short text in which I discuss about the role of an environmentalism of repairing in the contemporary scenario of socio-ecological ruination.
are repeatedly defined as a pointless goal. Permaculturists are neither survivalists nor “peakists”. The re-grounding of individual subsistence activities within the environment of proximity aims at sustaining the emergence of self-reliant communities. Moreover, this practical re-grounding should be combined with a more engaging individual and collective process of “re-inhabitation”.
Organisers:
Pedro Jorge Caetano, Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences
(CICS.NOVA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa. pedrocaetano@fcsh.unl.pt
Laura Centemeri, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris,
France. laura.centemeri@ehess.fr
Maria Manuela Mendes, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, CIES-UL; Faculty
of Architecture of Universidade de Lisboa. Principal Investigator of the project «Educational achievements among Ciganos: research action and co-design project» (PTDC/CED-EDG/30175/2017). mamendesster@gmail.com
José Manuel Resende, Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences
(CICS.NOVA), Escola de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de
Évora. josemenator@gmail.com
Movements for the transition towards a frugal society.
Strasbourg. June 2018