Affective Infrastructure

Capitalism's Specters in the Ecovillage Findhorn Community

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5598720
AutoresKelsey D Grubbs (0009-0007-5142-1584, Department of Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Data de publicação2025-10-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropology of Consciousness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1053-4202 • E-ISSN: 1556-3537
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/anoc.70019
OpenAlexW4415419974
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas44

The Ecovillage Findhorn Community (EFC) in Northeast Scotland seeks to live in harmony with nature. How the community has done this over its 60-plus years has changed from social communalism, where residents lived in cheap caravans, to now mostly privately-owned expensive 'eco' houses with green technology. Embedded in this historical-present transition is a troubled tension of both resisting and perpetuating capitalism-the malevolent specter fueling genocide and ecocide. However, there is an 'eco' paradox of "cruel optimism" here, whereby paying for expensive 'eco' housing and green technology infrastructure to mitigate capitalism's specters inherently fuels capitalism, which created the need for 'sustainable' solutions in the first place. This paper attends to how EFC residents, human and other-than-human, grapple with capitalism's spectral entanglement with affective infrastructures

Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Water Governance and Infrastructure