Politik der Lebensstile und Protest auf der »Wirhaben es satt!« Demonstration Reflexives Wissen in Agrar- und Ernährungsbewegungen

The article “Politics of lifestyles and protest at the ‘Wir haben es satt! ‘ – reflexive knowledge in agricultural and food movements’ by Birgit Peuker, Renata Motta, Judith Müller and Lea Loretta Zentgraf explores the question of how protest against government policy and a lifestyle policy aimed at changing everyday practices are linked in the “We’ve had enough!” protest movement. Based on the discussion about the relationship between ‘combative politics’ and a ‘politics of lifestyles’ in social movement research and a focus on food practices, agricultural and food movements in Germany are empirically examined, using document analyses, participant observations and qualitative interviews, and in particular a quantitative protest survey of the ‘We’ve had enough!’ demonstration. A key finding of the study is that the connection between the “politics of lifestyles‘ and the political protest ’Wir haben es satt!” is convincing when protesters implement their political demands for a different agricultural and food system in their own everyday practices and develop knowledge and skills for this purpose. At the same time, social movements such as ‘Meine Landwirtschaft’ (My Agriculture) can be understood as ‘places of learning’, because the movement conveys values of social and ecological justice, which it uses to evaluate its own actions, but also those of politicians and entrepreneurs.”