Prefiguration in Everyday Practices: When the Mundane Becomes Political

The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, it aims to understand the interplay between everyday life and prefiguration. It does this by scrutinising three key facets of everyday life and discussing which type of everyday practices, and under which circumstances, can be considered prefigurative – namely, particular utopian practices that not only envision alternative futures but also enact them. Second, it aims to reflect on how people, individually and collectively, try to articulate and respond to challenges posed by the contemporary capitalist system of production, trade, sale and consumption. It does this by focusing on everyday life as a key locus for change.