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Panel: Energy Geographies: The Value of Sharing Work-in-Progress Imagine being part of a community with a long industrial heritage. How you feel and know the world is entangled with that industrial heritage. The loss of a cannery, engine factory, and stone mining industry were consequential. Production continues at a longstanding multinational petrochemical refinery. It’s architecture is part of the landscape, literally carved into the granite. Surplus heat from the refinery is piped throughout the town into people’s homes, places of work, bodies, and culture. It’s possible to consider the refinery as ‘ecological’, just as the other industries were. In 2017 the Swedish government passed a new climate policy which sets the stage for the decarbonisation of the country. This has now caused the fate of industries that are heavily reliant on carbon to be called into question. This paper seeks to understand how participatory art-based research methods can help us learn about the effects of ‘ecological’ changes (human and more-than-human) during the transition to low-carbon industries and futures in fence-line towns. This paper self-reflexively identifies and explores some successes, failures, and challenges of using ABR for such a purpose. It rests upon a comparative case study of three Swedish cities that are currently reliant on traditionally fossil-intensive industries.
Author(s): Evers C
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference
Year of Conference: 2023
Print publication date: 29/08/2023
Acceptance date: 20/04/2023
URL: https://event.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac2023/pages
