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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
- Source :
- Journal of Sustainable Tourism; 26(3), pp 496-514 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- Summer music festivals that involve a few days of camping have often been linked to sustainability agendas. Yet relevant studies have so far overlooked how these events can themselves serve as experiments in less resource consumptive living. Building on a wider interest in the cultural evolution of cleanliness norms, this paper explores how attendees come to use water in personal washing at two UK festivals. Through survey, observation and interview research, it examines how current festival goers respond to the disruption of their usual washing regimes, paying particular attention to how a combination of social and infrastructural cues serves to encourage the emergence of a temporary new cleanliness culture. Doing so highlights the value of seeing human resource consumption as a matter of dynamic collective convention more than fixed personal preference since these respondents were seen to embrace a new relationship with washing that was otherwise deemed unthinkable. This leads to a broader discussion of how visitor needs and the social world are most usefully studied by both future festival organisers and the wider field of sustainable tourism research.
- Subjects :
- Resource (biology)
business.industry
Visitor pattern
05 social sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
0507 social and economic geography
Music festival
Public relations
Convention
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
0502 economics and business
Sustainability
Sociology
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Sociocultural evolution
business
Human resources
Festivals, cleanliness, water consumption, social norms
050703 geography
050212 sport, leisure & tourism
Sustainable tourism
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17477646 and 09669582
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Sustainable Tourism
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9ebf8d003b9b5afa89cfe09b6c0c961b