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Jože Vogrinc - Reproduction of social relationships as framework for ecostrategies and tactics

[Talk from the 2025 International Summer School of Political Ecology in Ljubljana] In Trump’s world of high uncertainty we should not bind ecologic movements whose objective is de-growth to Green transition as immediate concern. Long-term strategies and tactics are necessary, taking into account multi-level complexity of social processes of environment transformation. Reproduction of social relationships /RSR/ is hereby treated as an ensemble of intertwined processes of preservation/transformation of environment and of social relations on levels from personal across local and state level to global; everywhere as social (cultural, political) as well as biological in character. These processes are spatialized differently on different levels (e.g. concentrated vs. dispersed). Its temporal modes also differ (e.g. singularity vs. repeatability, different intensity). The Ecological weight of a social practice is more than a sum of its individual carbon (or digital) footprints. On different spatial levels it has different economic implications; on each level its dependence on political framework, group identities and cultural patterns is different; on each level modes of communication are different. Considered on the plane of someone’s Lebenswelt, its physical conditions and biological consequences in space and time are different to when mediated impact of her/his social bonds on biotic and abiotic ecological process on the Earth is considered. The RPR scheme should make easier building strategies and tactics. Each point at each level is a crossing of relations open to examination either vertically among levels, and/or among actors on each level here and now in space-time. The immediate concern is to understand better embeddedness of individual engagement in unstable environment of institutions. --- Jože Vogrinc is a retired sociologist. He taught at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, where he lectured, among other things, on social change and development; he is now interested in historical materialism as a theory of the reproduction of social relations.