‘Obedeciendo a la vida’: Environmental Citizenship Reconfigured?

Juan Camilo Cajigas Rotundo

doi:10.2307/jj.455864.22

‘Obedeciendo a la vida’: Environmental Citizenship Reconfigured?

Juan Camilo Cajigas Rotundo

Department of Cultural Studies

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Obedecer a la Vida¹ (Obey Life, Abide by Life) was the expression Roberto Saenz used when referring to what made him feel and think. This is the way he expressed his commitments to the Tenasuca Lagoon (located in the Tequendama Andean Cloud Forest of Colombia); to his colleague Arnovis, who worked every day in agroecology;² and to his private nature reserve and small organic market.³ In addition, he added, “I do not practice civil resistance. I obey life.” Roberto’s statement struck me deeply and led me to think about the different ways of considering emergent practices for repairing a certain...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ecological Reparation
Subtitle of host publication	Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict
Editors	Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Magdalena Taccheti
Place of Publication	Inglaterra
Publisher	Bristol University Press
Chapter	14
Pages	208-222
ISBN (Electronic)	ISBN 978- 1- 5292- 1606-6
ISBN (Print)	ISBN 978- 1- 5292- 1604- 2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.455864.22
State	Published - 2023

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‘Obedeciendo a la vida’: Environmental Citizenship Reconfigured? / Cajigas Rotundo, Juan Camilo.
Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict. ed. / Dimitris Papadopoulos; Maria Puig de la Bellacasa; Magdalena Taccheti. Inglaterra: Bristol University Press, 2023. p. 208-222.

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