Empowerment in an ecovillage: Unveiling the role of power relations in social practices

被引:4
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作者
Mafle Ferreira Duarte, Luiz Guilherme [1 ]
Sahakian, Marlyne [2 ]
Ferreira Neto, Joao Leite [1 ]
机构
[1] Pontificia Univ Catolica Minas Gerais, Psychol, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
[2] Univ Geneva, Sociol, Genebra, Switzerland
关键词
Ecovillages; social practices; power relations; empowerment; COMMUNITY; CONSUMPTION;
D O I
10.1080/15575330.2021.1923045
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Living in an ecovillage requires that people reinvent everyday practices. It involves new forms of production, consumption, social organization, and subjective constitution, aiming toward the normative goal of achieving greater "sustainability." Based on ethnographic research in Western Switzerland, this paper focuses on uncovering the nexus of power relations, social practices, and empowerment in daily life in an ecovillage. We find that power relations and social practices are intertwined, leading to different outcomes regarding empowerment. Procedures, understandings, and forms of engagement constitute social practices; however, power relations can either cause or constrain the rearrangement of practices toward different forms of individual and community empowerment, whereby some practices "orchestrate" others.
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页码:592 / 606
页数:15
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