Should there be more showers at the summer music festival? Studying the contextual dependence of resource consuming conventions and lessons for sustainable tourism

Hitchings, Russell; Browne, Alison; Jack, Tullia

doi:10.1080/09669582.2017.1360316

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“…Showering is one of many resource-intensive practices in Western everyday life, with profound environmental consequences, and previous research into the habits of bathing and showering has also taken practice theoretical approaches (Browne et al, 2014;Gram-Hanssen, 2007;Hand et al, 2005;Hitchings et al, 2018). Hand et al (2005) were interested in understanding why showering has become so popular compared with bathing over the last decades and approach this through a material, a cultural and a temporal perspective.…”

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“…In addition, the role of peer pressure from friends and schoolmates is seen as part of how teenagers learned the rules of cleanliness, such as the daily showering, especially related to the norm of not smelling of sweat (Gram-Hanssen, 2007). Finally, a fourth study investigates how, during summer music festivals, temporarily new cultures of cleanliness evolve, as young people who usually shower daily may accept several days without performing this cleanliness practice (Hitchings et al, 2018). This paper poses the question: if these music festivals may contribute to a broader sustainability agenda, the festivals can also contribute to raising questions about the normal, resource-intensive cleanliness regime.…”

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Sequence of practices in personal and societal rhythms – Showering as a case

Gram‐Hanssen¹,

Christensen²,

Madsen

et al. 2019

Time & Society

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This paper explores methodologically and theoretically how to understand variations in the temporal performances of showering as a practice-as-entity. Time-based data on domestic hot water consumption in 134 Danish households show distinctly different patterns, where some households exhibit highest consumption in the morning and others in the evening. This temporal pattern of showering is analysed based on an innovative combination of statistical cluster analysis and qualitative interviews. Focus is on the timing of showering related to sequences of other everyday practices, and to the rules, meanings and dispositions guiding this practice. From a sustainability perspective, the consumption of water and energy entailed by showering is problematic, and with increasingly intermittent renewable energy production, the timing of showering also becomes an issue. The study demonstrates that the time of showering is closely related to sequences of different practices, that dispositions and socio-demographics influence the order of sequences, and that meanings of showering may vary accordingly. However, there are also common meanings and rules related to showering across these variations, which contribute to the formation of showering as a practice-as-entity.

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Sequence of practices in personal and societal rhythms – Showering as a case

Gram‐Hanssen¹,

Christensen²,

Madsen

et al. 2019

Time & Society

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“…Food waste source separation has been highlighted as a major area of waste sorting at festivals, especially in terms of the packaging of retailed food and drink, requiring waste production practices at both the canteen facilities and the venue at large [13]. The supply chains of festival goods and facilities should also be effectively communicated with and coordinated in the waste management at the festivals [14]. The importance of effective indicators assessing waste management efficiency and performance is also stressed [15].…”

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Assessing the Learning Effects of Host Communications on the Green Knowledge and Behavior of Festival Attendees—Evidence from Compulsory Garbage Sorting in China

Yan

Shen

2021

Sustainability

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Compulsory waste sorting has been in practice in pilot cities in China and is expected to be fully implemented in urban areas of the country by 2025. However, the learning of compulsory waste sorting by non-local festival attendees in a semi-free choice festival context and the roles of the relevant factors require further investigation. In particular, for the non-local attendees, the festival context avails both the opportunity and occasion for effective learning of compulsory waste sorting, a unique research window worth further exploration. Employing a systematic modeling approach to comprehensively investigate the interrelationships among the identified significant factors, this study explores and examines the mechanism of this learning process with a hierarchy of positive relationships between the host communications, learning outcomes and behavioral intentions of the festival attendees concerning compulsory waste sorting. The research subject of this study was a branded forest music festival held in a waste-sorting pilot city in East China, which has long been pivoting to the promotion of environmental-friendly values. The objective measurement of the learning outcomes integrated by this study accentuate the effectiveness of the proposed structural model. Our research findings confirmed all of the hypothesized relationships and established positive learning outcomes for the festival attendees on waste sorting as instructed by the festival hosts. The role of the festival attendees’ environmental attitudes in mediating their learning outcomes was corroborated. This study advances the understanding of the experiential learning processes of pro-environment and sustainability knowledge and behavior in festival contexts, areas that require future research attention with growing reflections on and awareness of environmental protection and sustainable development.

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“…Practitioners change their relationship with cleanliness conventions in different contexts. For example, it is fine, even liberating, to be dirty at a summer festival, while at the office cleanliness is more important, and dirtiness is seen as shameful (Hitchings et al., 2018). Media could provide a demonstration site, so not only the reproducer and influencer of a convention, but also a specific site.…”

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Representations – A critical look at media’s role in cleanliness conventions and inconspicuous consumption

Jack

2018

Journal of Consumer Culture

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In post-industrialist societies, similar high standards of living are becoming not only desired but also expected the world over. Globalising processes ensure that every material desire is within the reach of ordinary citizens, and then flame these desires in order to sustain continuous growth narratives. But are increasingly resource-intensive lifestyles sustainable, or even desirable? This article investigates cleanliness using representations in media to understand how practices – including washing, disinfecting and sanitising – have become increasingly normal. Five popular Swedish magazines from 1985 to 2015 are used to track the representations of cleanliness. Idealisation, shame and medicalisation are the main themes arising from this data set. These themes aim to perpetuate higher cleanliness conventions and translate them into consumer goods. The article is inspired by a critical theoretical perspective which helps to reveal inequalities perpetuated by the way media represents cleanliness and suggests that the imperative to clean falls most heavily on those who lack the resources to resist. Processes of inclusion and exclusion are inherent in consumer culture and this attempt at using critical theory to understand consumption practices illuminates consumption’s role in not only increasing pressure on the natural environment but also amplifying social stratification.

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Should there be more showers at the summer music festival? Studying the contextual dependence of resource consuming conventions and lessons for sustainable tourism

Cited by 17 publications

References 49 publications

Sequence of practices in personal and societal rhythms – Showering as a case

Sequence of practices in personal and societal rhythms – Showering as a case

Assessing the Learning Effects of Host Communications on the Green Knowledge and Behavior of Festival Attendees—Evidence from Compulsory Garbage Sorting in China

Representations – A critical look at media’s role in cleanliness conventions and inconspicuous consumption

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