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Iterative Self-Making: Everyday Activism Across Multiple Scales by Hilary B. King

📚 Anthropological Optimism: https://amzn.to/48bIv6s (Commissions earned) Hilary King explores everyday activism multiple scales through Atlanta's alternative food networks. Iterative self-making creates reinforcing loops—connecting daily activities with self-reflection that continuously remakes activists. But the hard question persists: people collaborate during COVID and George Floyd protests, then fragment during normal times. Can activism sustain beyond crisis? 🔗 Full page: https://www.livinganthropologically.c... 🌍 Environmental Engagements: https://www.livinganthropologically.c... ⚡ *KEY CONCEPTS* 🔄 *Iterative Self-Making* Not just repeating or cycling but a journey where you're cycling toward some other point—like a spiral. Practical actions plus continual subjective effort create reinforcing loops connecting daily activities with self-reflection. 🥬 *CSAs During COVID Supply Chain Breakdown* First blast of COVID: couldn't buy toilet paper or food, supply chains breaking down. Farm-to-door CSAs took off, filling gaps especially for those already doing food work. Community Supported Agriculture: buy share in farm, weekly harvest deliveries. 🏘️ *Three Scales of Everyday Activism* Community-level (expanding collaboration despite activists stretched thin), organizational (adjusting missions for racial justice during George Floyd protests), individual (growing own food, neighborhood farmers consulting on gourds). 📖 *The Color of Food* Reflection in community-supported agriculture space, traditionally white hippie space. But people of color, immigrant populations, African Americans produce and transmit most of our food. Global Growers Network integrates refugees with farming techniques. 🌱 *Every Neighborhood Its Own Farmer* Vision: food will be that local, that will just be normal. Farmer becomes consultant helping people grow, not just selling. Individual actions connect to organizational scaling connect to community transformation. ⏰ *Crisis Optimism vs Normal Times* People only come together during crisis times, rest of time just off doing own thing. Few minutes pulling together helping each other, then it dissipates. George Floyd protests—where did that go? Didn't fix racism, didn't fix police shootings. 📉 *Crisis Fatigue and Backlash* Crime statistically 10% what it was decades ago but constant panic. Family separation concerns disappeared. Did King write this during crazy optimistic three-month window? Maybe things are better in Atlanta but crisis fatigue is real. 🔍 *Probing, Framing, Furthering* Anthropology's tools for social change: Probing (asking deep questions prompting reflection), Framing (naming activities people intuitively undertake as "everyday activism"), Furthering (collaborative strategizing about future). 🌾 *Reinforcing Loops Not Circles* Iterative implies movement toward some point, not just going around circle again. Daily garden work feeds organizational food justice feeds community alternative networks feeds movements challenging whose knowledge counts. 💡 *WHY THIS MATTERS* King's Atlanta research confronts the central problem of contemporary activism: mobilization during crisis (COVID, George Floyd) followed by rapid demobilization and backlash. The iterative self-making framework suggests continuous cycling of action and reflection might maintain momentum during "normal" times—but the skepticism is warranted. Understanding activism across multiple scales helps explain both why crisis mobilization feels powerful and why it's so hard to sustain. 🌱 *CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY* Explore more at Environmental Engagements: https://www.livinganthropologically.c... #Anthropology #EverydayActivism #FoodJustice #CSA #CommunityOrganizing #Atlanta #COVID19 #GeorgeFloyd #IterativeSelfMaking #AlternativeFoodSystems