Ethnography of Global Environmentalism

Caroline Gatt is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests include environmentalism, post-relativist approaches to human diversity, laboratory theatre and design anthropology.

• 1. Introduction: Environmentalism, globality and anthropology in the common world 2. Proposing an Imaginary: Fields of Forces, Vectors and Direction of Attention 3. Field Methods, Emplacement and Scale: Where is Friends of the Earth International? 4. Chronological history and organic time: Being Introduced to FoEI 5. Striving for an exemplary life :Becoming an Environmentalist 6. Rhythms of globality: Developing a sense of belonging to FoEI 7. Communication Technologies and Presence: Being in touch in FoEI 8. The effectiveness of structure: Vectors at work in a transnational federation 9. Experiments with political form and process 10. Epilogue: An Experiment Appendix

"In this meticulously written book, crafted from nine years of ethnographic work, Caroline Gatt provides a highly original account of an activist NGO that not only tells us about what its members and supporters believe and do, but also how their actions, decisions and priorities are embedded in wider practices, processes and imaginaries. This volume is an important and timely addition to the small but growing field of anthropological studies of activism and NGOs worlds, and should be read by activists and researchers alike."- David Lewis, London School of Economics & Political Science