‘Obedeciendo a la vida’: Environmental Citizenship Reconfigured?

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...