Da miragem à morada: a ideia de natureza confrontada pela crítica da vida cotidiana

Abstract

Starting from the characterization of a “modern ideology of nature”, the initial objective of this research is to envision possible transformations in the relationships between humans and non- humans, through the “critique of everyday life”. Based on the Marxist tradition, especially on Henri Lefebvre's theory, I describe a “mirage-nature” – illusory, fragmented, residual – forged in the western imaginary and consolidated in the context of the “urban-industrial”. In the next step, I recognize a lefebvrian "horizon of possibilities", in which an "urban-utopia" is outlined. Understanding the prevalence of use over exchange value, the overcoming of an ethics of domination by practices of “appropriation” and the recovery of the meaning of “dwelling”, I propose the basis for a “nature-dwell”. Aiming to deepen the emancipatory ideas reached in the level of everyday life, I approach the scale of domestic life, together with feminist epistemology. With an economic perspective “from the background” (Nancy Fraser), or “from below” (Veronica Gago), the separation between production and social reproduction is questioned. Identifying experiences of communal bonds as an ecofeminist counterpower (Silvia Federici), the limitations between public and private, State and market are challenged. Through the radicalization of “care” as a field of interdependence between beings from a “more-than-human” world (María Puig de la Bella Casa), the revision of the principle of human exceptionality and the very idea of “nature” is envisioned. Finally, taking the conquest of narrative as a tool for imagination and political dispute (bell hooks), I propose the emergence of a “feminist imagination of dwelling”.