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Promoting Environmental Awareness.: On Emotions, Story-Telling, and Banal Sustainability in a Staged Rainforest
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies.
2019 (English)In: Ethnologia Europaea, ISSN 0425-4597, E-ISSN 1604-3030, Vol. 49, no 1Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article investigates the promotion of environmental awareness in a staged rainforest at a science centre in Sweden. The organizers worked with the agenda to change people’s everyday behaviour and consumer routines and especially targeted the use of palm oil. This mundane way of approaching environmental issues is defined by the author as banal sustainability. The exhibited forest was employed for guided walks, stressing the domestication of the environmental challenges into issues of people’s everyday life practices. The promotion of an awareness rested on the bodily experience of moving in the staged rainforest, emphazising astonishment, adventure, and empathy. It worked as an attachment site, connecting insight to action. As such, it was practice-oriented, simplifying, and empowering.

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2019. Vol. 49, no 1
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domestication, environmental awareness, banal sustainability, palm oil, rainforest display
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Ethnology
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Ethnology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-183891DOI: 10.16995/ee.819OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-183891DiVA, id: diva2:1457165
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Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P15-0789:1Available from: 2020-08-10 Created: 2020-08-10 Last updated: 2022-02-26Bibliographically approved

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