Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

The Living Oikos: Towards an Ecological Politics of Dependence

by Francisca Echeverría
Save 35% Save 35%
Current price ₹7,730.00
Original price ₹11,891.00
Original price ₹11,891.00
Original price ₹11,891.00
(-35%)
₹7,730.00
Current price ₹7,730.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 18-21 Days

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783658512736
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer VS
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer VS
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 313
  • Original Price: EUR 108.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 385 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social

This book examines ecological practice through an approach that challenges dominant anthropocentric and ecocentric perspectives in environmental political theory. The work argues that different mainstream approaches tend to objectify the ecological by treating it as a uniform set of behaviors or techniques detached from its social contexts, based on dualistic assumptions. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of the Chilean island of Chiloé, the book explores the ecological as an embedded practice in which attachment, body and sociability play a critical role. The theoretical framework combines insights from authors such as Elinor Ostrom, Pedro Morandé, Robert Spaemann, Bruno Latour, strands of feminist theory and phenomenology, and especially Alasdair MacIntyre's reflections on vulnerability and dependence. The central thesis is that ecological practice is sustained by a community ethos of acknowledged dependence, in which vulnerability and need provide reasons to care and overcome instrumental rationality. By articulating the concepts of care, flourishing, limits and belonging, the book outlines a view of communities of everyday ecological practice that recovers the experience of the living as crucial for ecological politics at the local scale and beyond.

Francisca Echeverría is a researcher at Signos Center for Social Studies and Research at Universidad de los Andes, Chile. Her work in ecological political theory integrates ethnographic insights to address the philosophical questions underlying current discussions in this field.

Trusted for over 49 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us