“If I don’t do it, it feels wrong”: embodying environmental ethical reflexivity through cultivation and enactment of practices DOI Creative Commons
Anne Sofie Møller Askholm

Sustainability Science Practice and Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 20(1)

Published: May 31, 2024

Second-generation practice theoretical research on sustainable consumption has largely overlooked the role of environmental ethics. This is likely due to associations "ethics" with culture and symbolic understandings consumption. article investigates how some environmentally aware engaged consumers actively try cultivate ethical practices in order develop ways living more sustainably. By combining a framework Michel Foucault's work self-cultivation, I combine – understood as emerging specific places time part cultural formations processes embodiment reflexivity understand can play change practices. The argues that changing based changed ethics requires an ongoing reflexive bodily process training bodymind embody skills mold sensory, affective, perceptual dispositions. processual requiring effort, which participants nevertheless experience meaning hope they are able create their own lives and, over degree, live up ideals. analysis ethnographic fieldwork conducted two locations using audio-visual methods participant observation interviews who everyday

Language: Английский

Rural In-migrants: Embracing Sustainable Lifestyles for a Post-Growth Society? DOI
Simona Zollet

Science across cultures, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 171 - 185

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Language: Английский

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A city of gardeners: What happens when policy, planning, and populace co-create the food production of a novel peri-urban area? DOI Creative Commons
J.E. Jansma, Sigrid Wertheim‐Heck

Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 51(3), P. 705 - 720

Published: Aug. 14, 2023

Urban re-orientation on feeding the city in a city-region context has encouraged local policies to spur urban agriculture by stimulating bottom-up citizen participation food production. However, real life, tensions occur between and practices. The misalignment of policy goals with planning instruments needs practitioners hampers development substantial This paper introduces Oosterwold, new peri-urban area Dutch Almere that pivots agriculture. Oosterwold is unique experiment which top-down goal – producing 10% future handed over self-organisation residents, who are bound rule allocate 51% their plot study deploys social practice theory–informed analysis appraise performance Novel our methodology combining an online survey ( n=111) aerial photos n=199) we unpack unruly nature shaping up through participation. Our demonstrates (i) it takes time for residents adopt as heterogeneous lifestyle (ii) focus approaches, such residents’ self-organisation, does not imply laissez faire from policy. It inferred balance goals, instruments, requires shared vision builds supportive conditions.

Language: Английский

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“If I don’t do it, it feels wrong”: embodying environmental ethical reflexivity through cultivation and enactment of practices DOI Creative Commons
Anne Sofie Møller Askholm

Sustainability Science Practice and Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 20(1)

Published: May 31, 2024

Second-generation practice theoretical research on sustainable consumption has largely overlooked the role of environmental ethics. This is likely due to associations "ethics" with culture and symbolic understandings consumption. article investigates how some environmentally aware engaged consumers actively try cultivate ethical practices in order develop ways living more sustainably. By combining a framework Michel Foucault's work self-cultivation, I combine – understood as emerging specific places time part cultural formations processes embodiment reflexivity understand can play change practices. The argues that changing based changed ethics requires an ongoing reflexive bodily process training bodymind embody skills mold sensory, affective, perceptual dispositions. processual requiring effort, which participants nevertheless experience meaning hope they are able create their own lives and, over degree, live up ideals. analysis ethnographic fieldwork conducted two locations using audio-visual methods participant observation interviews who everyday

Language: Английский

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