Living and Fighting as an Ecologist: Socialisation and the Work of Self-Coherence within the Environmental Cause

This article looks at the way in which the environmental cause space institutes an imperative of individual coherence. It stems from militant socialisation, the effects of which are comparable to those of enveloping institutions. However, this socialisation to self-coherence is not dependent on a centralised organisation, as environmental activists regularly move between different places and groups. Its effectiveness can be understood by taking into account the wider ecologist context. To this end, it is necessary to articulate the mechanisms for revising the behaviors of screwing put in place by the collectives studied, the class dispositions of the activists and the networks of sociability internal to the activist sphere.