Lifestyle politics

The term lifestyle politics refers to a specific set of citizen political actions that blurs the traditional division between public and private. Also labeled as "politics by other means" it indicates a move away from institutional and formal modes of engagement while reflecting the tendency of individuals to recognize the political significance of choices concerning one's personal life. Lifestyle politics can regard issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and the exploitation of workers and natural resources in the global value chains. It can span several and diverse aspects of daily life such as, among others: fashion, food, transportation, household waste disposal, the use of energy sources, health and housing. Whereas lifestyle politics is rooted in private daily habits, it is not limited to individual uncoordinated actions. Activism embedded in daily life can be central to the spread of both individualized actions as well as more communitarian efforts, such as communal and ecological ways of producing or living.