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Book review forum: Everyday Environmentalism by Alex Loftus, with commentaries from Katie McGrath Meehan, Bruce Braun, Michael Ekers, Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Richard Walker, and Alex Loftus

Book review forum: Everyday Environmentalism by Alex Loftus, with commentaries from Katie McGrath... 304 cultural geographies 21(2) 7. B. Massumi, quoted in I.G.R. Shaw and K. Meehan, ‘Force-Full’. 8. Jamie Lorimer makes a similar point in his review of the book. See: J. Lorimer, ‘Book review: Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology by Alex Loftus’, Area, 45, 2013, pp. 126−8. 9. A. Loftus, Everyday Environmentalism, p. 32. 10. K.M. Meehan, ‘Greywater and the Grid: Informal Technologies as Urban Water Provision in Mexico’, (under review). 11. K. Bakker, Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World’s Urban Water Crisis (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010), p. 188. 12. A. Loftus, Everyday Environmentalism, p. 13. 13. A. Merrifield, quoted in A. Loftus, Everyday Environmentalism, p. 136. * * * Alex Loftus begins his wonderful book Everyday Environmentalism with a discussion of anger: our desire for the world to be radically different, he suggests, is more often ‘a stifled anger than a revolutionary cry’. The challenge, he continues, is to ‘understand the movement of this anger, to learn from it, build on it, and transcend it in both humble and democratic ways’. Stated in slightly different terms, the challenge is to give this anger (and the thwarted desire that lies behind it) a political form, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book review forum: Everyday Environmentalism by Alex Loftus, with commentaries from Katie McGrath Meehan, Bruce Braun, Michael Ekers, Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Richard Walker, and Alex Loftus

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Cultural Geographies , Volume 21 (2): 4 – Apr 1, 2014
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304 cultural geographies 21(2) 7. B. Massumi, quoted in I.G.R. Shaw and K. Meehan, ‘Force-Full’. 8. Jamie Lorimer makes a similar point in his review of the book. See: J. Lorimer, ‘Book review: Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology by Alex Loftus’, Area, 45, 2013, pp. 126−8. 9. A. Loftus, Everyday Environmentalism, p. 32. 10. K.M. Meehan, ‘Greywater and the Grid: Informal Technologies as Urban Water Provision in Mexico’, (under review). 11. K. Bakker, Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World’s Urban Water Crisis (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010), p. 188. 12. A. Loftus, Everyday Environmentalism, p. 13. 13. A. Merrifield, quoted in A. Loftus, Everyday Environmentalism, p. 136. * * * Alex Loftus begins his wonderful book Everyday Environmentalism with a discussion of anger: our desire for the world to be radically different, he suggests, is more often ‘a stifled anger than a revolutionary cry’. The challenge, he continues, is to ‘understand the movement of this anger, to learn from it, build on it, and transcend it in both humble and democratic ways’. Stated in slightly different terms, the challenge is to give this anger (and the thwarted desire that lies behind it) a political form,

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