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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Escribano, Paula author Lubbers, Miranda Jessica author Molina, José Luis author 2017-12-05 Studying grassroots initiatives which aim to respond to environmental and social crisis is of renewed importance nowadays, in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis in southern Europe. This paper studies people’s motivations for becoming part of an eco-community in Catalonia, Spain, through interviews with 29 informants. The research is part of a larger study, based on ethnographic data collected between 2013 and 2015 in 27 eco-communities. The paper shows the extent to which people who joined an eco-community were driven by ideological reasons, adopting a livelihood strategy, or by a combination of both factors in the years following the crisis. We argue that the social and economic crisis has had an impact on the factors motivating people to join these communities, with an increase in the number of people driven by materialistic motives, relative to those who joined for ideological reasons. Escribano, P;Lubbers M.J; Molina JL (2017). Becoming part of an eco-community: Social and environmental activism or livelihood strategy? Social Sciences, 6(4), 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6040148 10.3390/socsci6040148 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/133063 2076-0760 https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6040148 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/6/4/148 Becoming part of an eco-community: social and environmental activism or livelihood strategy?