ABSTRACT
This chapter is about what it means to be an activist on the Larzac and the moral dilemmas and creative process of self-reflection the entails. Plenty of intellectuals with sophisticated theories of globalization and power participate in the alterglobalization movement. Activists try to encourage non-activists to act against oppression and there is a suggestion that so doing is a moral duty or responsibility. Ideas of responsibility are common. The emphasis on the individual and on choice has a particular history. Choice was a key notion in the politics of liberation from structures of power which burst into French public life with May '68 and which played an important role in the Larzac struggle. Choosing to become an activist is further dependant upon the modern division between work and leisure, public and private life, necessity and freedom. Becoming aware involves what people call a prise de conscience, a 'becoming conscious' of structures of power and domination.
