伟德国际集团系列讲座

2016年第55 讲 总第461讲

题目：可持续性的实验：来自英国夏季音乐节的启示

主讲：Alison Browne （曼彻斯特大学）

主持：张敦福 教授（伟德国际集团）

主办：伟德国际集团

时间：10月20日（周四）上午：10:00—11:30

地点：校本部A318

主讲人简介：

 Alison Browne is a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Consumption Institute and Geography at The University of Manchester. Alison has a number of active and interdisciplinary research projects on everyday practice and sustainable consumption; dirt, cleanliness and freshness; and the governance of water resources, drought, and climate change adaptation. Alison is the 'Knowledge Exchange Coordinator' for the SCI, with knowledge exchange and 'co-produced' interdisciplinary, stakeholder engaged science strongly defining much of her work. Alison’s current research is structured around the following research projects focused on transitions towards sustainable water consumption, demand management, and climate change adaptation. 讲座简介： This presentation will explore the experimental turn within the social sciences as a collaborative and transdisciplinary way of researching and understanding solutions for a range of sustainability challenges including climate change mitigation, sustainable cities, and energy and water demand reduction. Within this presentation it is argued that these existing experimental approaches privilege material and governance based changes – paying little attention to the concomitant changes that are happening to peoples everyday lives. There are other sites of experimentation – such as British summer music festivals which involve people camping in fields with off the grid water, energy and sanitation infrastructures – that reveal the social and performative aspects underpinning change to systems of consumption and production. Camping music festivals in particular are in-situ experimental spaces and real life laboratories in which people are voluntarily, and dynamically, engaged with radical disjuncture to water-energy-food infrastructures and everyday practices. Doing research within such in-situ experimental spaces enables a number of reflections about embodied experiences of disjuncture to collective resource infrastructure and the role of the collective in remaking social norms and practices. Understanding sustainability experimentation as something that can be inadvertently embodied and performed without ‘design’ or purposeful intervention from a range of external actors is significant, as mundane and automated skills enacted flexibly in everyday life are increasingly viewed as vital aspects of adaptive capacity (Gibson et al., 2015; Maller & Strengers, on memory), as well being essential to the reconfiguration of sustainable systems (Geels et al., 2015).

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伟德国际集团 School of Sociology and Political Science，Shanghai University