Lawford-Smith, Holly & Tuckwell, William: Lifestyle Politics Is Not Politics

In The Ethics of Inefficacy. Routledge. forthcomingAn increasing range of everyday behaviours, like offering land acknowledgements or adding pronouns to email signatures, are considered political. We argue that this is misguided. Political action aims at achieving change, yet many of these everyday behaviours have no plausible connection to change. In this paper we oppose conceptual inflation and seek to restore a narrower and more useful conception of political action. We assess five candidat