The Young Activists’ Green Aspiration and Everyday Practices
摘要
This chapter explores the ethnographic experiences of Backsilmove activists, shedding light on their perspectives as young environmentalists and how they navigate, negotiate, and integrate green lifestyles into their daily lives. As they launch their environmental movement to protect, conserve, and defend the Babakan Siliwangi forest, the metropolitan city of Bandung equips them with material and immaterial resources that can configure their environmental activist identity. The activists’ green preferences have established and developed under the unique characteristics of Bandung. On one hand, Bandung presents itself as a knowledge hub and center of modernity, exposing its rapid infrastructural development. On another, the innovative knowledge and sources for environmentalism are widely accessible through community-based and local university-led environmental educations. These two factors have notably contributed to the Backsilmove activists’ green practices, which is profiled in this chapter through their journeys in higher education and green consumption, including green mobility.