“Chega desta falsa guerra”: ecologias de valor, operários e ambientalistas na Itália do Sul

Abstract

This article mobilizes the ecologies of value as a conceptual framework to account for the conflicts, contradictions and dilemmas arousing from the experience of the contemporary socio-ecological crisis. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brindisi, an industrial city in southern Italy. Through the examination of the frictions between industrial workers and environmentalists, the article unravels the socio-ecological dilemmas underlying their valuation frameworks. It addresses the job blackmail as a central element of the framework through which workers and environmentalists understand the contradictory forces at work in the
local socio-ecological crisis. To illuminate the place-bound experience of these contradictions, the article looks at the tension between value and values in shaping the experience of the work– environment nexus.