ABSTRACT
Permaculture presents a powerful critique of the neo-liberal world order, and its techniques may support self-sufficiency and practical sovereignty. Nevertheless, two factors limit its radical potential: its practical flexibility, and the need for educational and economic capital to apply it. Following a detailed description of permaculture and of its conceptualisation of social change, the permaculture community in Turkey is examined as a case study which demonstrates these limitations. Examining rural projects proving the approach’s viability and lifestyle activism in urban centres, I discuss these spaces of action in terms of permaculture’s currently unrealised potential for larger social change.
