Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2025

End of the World, End of the Month, and Beyond ? Working-class environmentalism

Fin du monde, fin du mois, et au-delà ? L’environnementalisme des classes populaires

Résumé

Unlike the paragons of ecological modernization, techno-solutionism or partisan political ecology, the ethos of those involved in grassroots environmentalism is often characterized by a relative modesty in the way they describe their relationship with ordinary nature. This attitude is the antithesis of the spectacle of the saviour-of-the-planet syndrome (from television producers turned ministers to digital multi-billionaires who constantly set themselves up as enlightened heroes of the ecological cause). What's more, the stranglehold of constraints on the environmental possibilities of post-war fishermen in Sète has not been loosened for the working classes of the 21st century. Nonetheless, certain sections of the working classes continue to have a unique relationship with the environment, driven primarily by the definition of “essential needs” against the industrialization of superfluous production, as well as by the organization of conditions for a dignified subsistence.

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halshs-04997780 , version 1 (24-03-2025)

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Renaud Bécot. Fin du monde, fin du mois, et au-delà ? L’environnementalisme des classes populaires. Steve Hagimont; Charles-François Mathis. La terre perdue. Une histoire de l’Occident et de la nature XVIIIe-XXIe siècle, Tallandier, pp.225-235, 2025, 9791021057548. ⟨halshs-04997780⟩
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