MODES OF GOVERNMENT AND SUBJECTIVATION PROCESSES IN ECOVILLAGES: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

Facing the economic and environmental crises that the world has been experiencing and the excessive focus given to individualization, ecovillages have emerged as alternatives against these societal effects. The article aims to investigate how the studies on ecovillages address the modes of government and the processes of subjectivation that exist in the relationship of subjects with the collective, with themselves and the with the environment. We based the study on the Foucaultian notion of government of oneself and of others in order to understand the processes of subjectification. We conducted an integrative review of articles that presented empirical research reports. The analyzes point out the relationship between government and subjectivation processes in ecovillages as in each aspect analyzed implied the exercise of the government of the self, care of the self, and practice of the self so that the subjects transformed themselves in order to achieve the specific objectives of each context.