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- Browne, Alison L.University of Manchester (author)
‘Already existing’ sustainability experiments : Lessons on water demand, cleanliness practices and climate adaptation from the UK camping music festival
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- Elsevier BV,2019
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- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.01.021DOI
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- Experimentation has become a popular term amongst those interested in fostering more sustainable social futures. But the ways in which researchers and policy makers have thought about experimentation have generally been with reference to new infrastructural and governance conditions. Focusing on intentional interventions downplays the capacity for change stemming from peoples’ already existing practices. In this paper, we propose that the camping music festival – a site that continues to be seen by some as a cultural laboratory in which attendees try out new identities – can be thought of as a site of ‘already existing’ sustainability experimentation. Drawing on 60 interviews about personal washing at two camping music festivals in the UK, we explore the festival as a site from which we can draw lessons about how societies in the Global North might cope with the disrupted water supply linked to future climate change. Interviewees divulge how escaping societal expectations about bodily cleanliness can become pleasurable and the enjoyment found in resurrecting otherwise disappearing societal skills for living without easy access to familiar washing infrastructures. Spending an extended period without these infrastructures, and enjoying the experience, brings into question the assumption of an unwavering consumer need for constant supply that is embedded in modernist visions of ‘Big Water’ systems. Thus, we argue that research on the geographies of ‘already existing’ sustainability experiments holds new potential for reimagining mundane, everyday practices within research and policy agendas on sustainable futurity.
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- NATURVETENSKAP Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap Miljövetenskap hsv//swe
- NATURAL SCIENCES Earth and Related Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences hsv//eng
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Sociologi Sociologi hsv//swe
- SOCIAL SCIENCES Sociology Sociology hsv//eng
- Cleanliness
- Climate adaptation
- Festivals
- Geographies of experiment
- Sustainability experimentation
- Water use
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- Jack, TulliaLund University,Lunds universitet,Sociologi,Sociologiska institutionen,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Sociology,Department of Sociology,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences(Swepub:lu)soc-tlj (author)
- Hitchings, RussellUniversity College London (author)
- University of ManchesterSociologi (creator_code:org_t)
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- In:Geoforum: Elsevier BV103, s. 16-250016-7185
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