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Sustainability stories. Narrating sustainability in everyday life II 
Convenors:
Owe Ronström (Ethnology)
Carina Johansson (Uppsala University Campus Gotland)
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Chair:
Owe Ronström (Ethnology)
Discussants:
Anders Häggström (Uppsala)
Gurbet Peker (Uppsala University)
Swaminathan Ramanathan (Uppsala University)
Format:
Panel
Stream:
SUSTAINABILITIES
:
Room H-204
Sessions:
Wednesday 15 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

The panel examines how sustainability is articulated, negotiated and fixated in concrete, everyday practices in local contexts, and how sustainability narratives interact with, reinforce, challenge or radically transform already established narratives and practices in different social areas.

Long Abstract:

Sustainability is now firmly established as one of today's most productive and important concepts. It is a powerful concept, difficult and ambiguous, with a pronounced moral, ethical and political charge, which makes it useful to many, but at the same time contributes to increased uncertainty about what it is. By being used so often, by so many, for so many reasons, sustainability has become increasingly ambiguous and multivalent, which in turn will most probably further increase its scope and strengthen its moral, ethical and political charge and power.

Like 'progress' and 'modernity', 'sustainability' is a concept that begs to be translated into stories, with a beginning, complication, resolution and end. In this panel we examine the stories people tell about their struggles to establish everyday practices and ways of life that can be understood as sustainable. Through studies of concrete, local contexts where sustainability is articulated, negotiated and fixated, we strive to come to grips with how sustainability narratives interact with already established narratives and practices in different social areas, how they may reinforce, challenge or radically transform them:

• • When and how is sustainability activated, articulated, and fixed? In what kind of stories and narrative modes? How are such stories structured? How is sustainability constituted, represented?

• • Who are the actors? How are roles and positions distributed? How are time and space, cause and effect arranged?

• How does sustainability relate to and interact with other "grand narratives", about progress, modernity, capitalism, peace, cultural heritage, etc.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 15 June, 2022, -
Panel Video visible to paid-up delegates