Article ID: CBB370840329

The Spiritualization of Ecology and (De)politicization (2021)

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This article examines the political effects of the spiritualization of ecology by considering the theoretical debate opposing ecology as subpolitics (i.e., a vector of new forms of politicization) and ecology as post-politics (i.e., a vector of depoliticization). This debate addresses the links between ecology, spirituality, and politics and hinges on the contrasting ways in which these terms may be understood. This study brings empirical specilcity to this debate by analyzing how it unfolds among environmentalist farmers in France. The lndings show how different views on ecology, spirituality, and politics coexist in one and the same movement depending on the farmers’ backgrounds. This demonstrates the ongoing redelnition of spirituality as a cultural category crosscutting the modern opposition between politics and religion, and highlights an understanding of the spiritualization of ecology as the addition of alternative political perspectives, more or less openly competing, rather than as a one-dimensional process of (de)politicization.

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Authors & Contributors
Nimrod Baranovitch
Becci, Irene
Sundqvist, Göran
Monnot, Christophe
Wernli, Boris
Louveau, Frédérique
Concepts
Environmentalism
Science and politics
Ecology
Environmental sciences
Science and religion
Environmental pollution
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
France
Australia
Inner Mongolia (China)
Estonia
Eastern Europe
Institutions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
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