Festive environmentalism: A carnivalesque reading of eco-voluntourism at the Roskilde Festival

Mette Fog Olwig; Lene Bull Christiansen

doi:10.4324/9781315717227

Festive environmentalism: A carnivalesque reading of eco-voluntourism at the Roskilde Festival

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Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque is applied here to a case study of eco-voluntourism at the Roskilde Festival, an international culture and music event held in Denmark. In the literature on popular forms of environmentalism a dichotomy between engaging and educating about the political ecology of environmental issues through empathy and affect versus fun and entertainment, is often drawn. We argue that the carnivalesque enables festivals to move beyond this dichotomy by implicitly acknowledging a mind-body tension (against a fixed binary), as embedded in Western culture, and by offering a venue for both to be stimulated.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Political Ecology of Tourism : Community, power and the environment
Editors	Mary Mostafanezhad, Roger Norum, Eric J. Shelton, Anna Thompson-Carr
Number of pages	20
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	14 Jan 2016
Pages	108-127
Chapter	5
ISBN (Print)	9781138859449
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315717227
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315717227
Publication status	Published - 14 Jan 2016

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Political Ecology of Tourism: Community, power and the environment. ed. / Mary Mostafanezhad; Roger Norum; Eric J. Shelton; Anna Thompson-Carr. London: Routledge, 2016. p. 108-127.

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