GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Usufruct, Overfishing, Antonio Gramsci
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Eesb15 lecture 10 - political objects and actors. Political identities and social struggles are linked to basic issues of livelihoods and environmental activity. New environmental regimes and conditions create opportunities for local people to engage in new political actions in defense of their natural resources and livelihoods. Moral economies and peasant resistance: collective action; reciprocity. When we talk about peasant resistance we"re referring to weapons of the weak. With collective action, they can be strong. Environmental hegemony: is something that you"ve been taught about the environment and believe in, you don"t question it because it"s preached by a dominant force. Peasant resistance runs up against the concomitant force of hegemony. Hegemony is a condition of that normalcy in which the expectations come to coincide with the interest of powerful actors and agents who stand to benefit. Political and economic systems are affected by non-human actors (climate, bacteria, soil, livestock etc. ) with which they"re intertwined.