Kehon politiikka ympäristöhallinnassa

Kokemuksellisen ympäristökansalaisuuden jäljillä

Abstract

This article investigates the emergence of environmental citizenship through body politics and corporeal
practices. The aim is to increase understanding of how environmental citizenship is constituted as part of
negotiating the relevance and plausibility of environmental knowledge and instructions in situated practices.
The analysis is based on personal, written memories; the main focus is in the attempts to redefine the
boundaries of the body as a particular strategy of environmental governance. Furthermore, the article
explores how the agency of the body is performed in these encounters. The analysis sheds light on the
ways in which the subjectivity of an environmental citizen and the related agency are constituted as part of
overlapping societal demands, evolving socio-material relations and personal history. Moreover, it highlights
the importance of affects in the constitution of environmental citizenship and suggests that further inquiry
into the intertwining of bodily practices and affective encounters could enrich the understanding of the
constitution of environmental citizens and environmentally concerned publics.