ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author explores the life of one particular activist as he talks about himself, especially how he understands his own path to becoming a member of Friends of the Earth (FoE) group. Whether the practise or the ideal comes not the issue, what makes it a discipline, a technology of the self, is the claim that they strive to achieve an ideal through their actions. Nicole. Shepherd argues that the politicization of everyday life, especially personal life choices, self-exemplification and the vigorous application of virtue can be found at different times in human history. Jurgen's life experiences before and beyond FoE Malta were absorbed into what constitute FoE Malta. Affordances are not fixed characteristics, but emergent relational qualities, in which things and persons are mutually constituted within a constantly unfolding field of relationships.