摘要:This article investigates the emergence of environmental citizenship through body politics and corporealpractices. The aim is to increase understanding of how environmental citizenship is constituted as part ofnegotiating the relevance and plausibility of environmental knowledge and instructions in situated practices.The analysis is based on personal, written memories; the main focus is in the attempts to redefine theboundaries of the body as a particular strategy of environmental governance. Furthermore, the articleexplores how the agency of the body is performed in these encounters. The analysis sheds light on theways in which the subjectivity of an environmental citizen and the related agency are constituted as part ofoverlapping societal demands, evolving socio-material relations and personal history. Moreover, it highlightsthe importance of affects in the constitution of environmental citizenship and suggests that further inquiryinto the intertwining of bodily practices and affective encounters could enrich the understanding of theconstitution of environmental citizens and environmentally concerned publics.