Ecology of Everyday Life examines the ecological impulse as a "desire for nature, " a desire that emerges as people within industrial capitalist contexts respond to the personal and aesthetic, rather than the physical and political implications of ecological breakdown.
While exploring the historical causes of this romantic "desire for nature, " Heller also offers a way to reconstruct ideas of both "nature" and "desire, " drawing from feminist, anarchist, and social ecological theory. She provides an activist response to ecological questions, arguing that the ecology movement too often links ecological problems to personal, psychological, and spiritual concerns, rather than to concerns of social justice. Yet rather than dismiss such personal and qualitative concerns, Heller links the desire for a more meaningful and integral quality of life to the activist impulse itself. Questioning assumptions about "nature, " "desire, " and "the ecological agenda, " the author encourages readers to consider new ways desiring nature that entail changes not only in personal life-style and outlook, but changes in social institutions as well.

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Heller, Chaia

Black Rose Press

Canada - English Language, Canada

First Edition, FR, 1999

Montréal, Québec, 1998

Montréal, ©1999

Montréal, c1999

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ecological awareness of the planet peaked in 1972 when astronauts first photographed the planet, revealing thick furrows of smog encasing a blue and green ball.

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