Becoming Citizen Green: prefigurative politics, autonomous geographies, and hoping against hope

Academics are interested in the nexus of citizenship and environment in relation to other strategies for promoting sustainable development. Environmental activists are interested in effective means of being political. The acts of the global justice movement give rise to an alterity constituting a prefigurative green citizenship. Cosmopolitan but grounded, this green citizenship is unbounded in space, time, or materiality. Its primary virtue is justice as a participatory politics of the common good. A second virtue is informed stewardship of nature. Enfolding irony and spurning practices or habits in favour of acts and rupture, a multifaceted ‘creativity’ is a third virtue. These virtues are united by the principle of hope as the ecotopian foundation for defiant resistance. Framed by location, being, relation,au and imagination, green citizenships is analysed spatially via auto-ethnographic narratives of participation in the global justice movement.