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In 2017, the Swedish parliament committed to making the country fossil-free by 2045, prompting an exploration of experiences and perceptions of transition in three cities hosting carbon-intensive industries – steel, cement, and petrochemical which currently top the list of Sweden’s industrial emitters. From 2019 to 2023, a Swedish-UK research team employed conventional qualitative methods to gather insights from various stakeholders, including industry, municipal actors, and residents, supplemented by arts-based research methods for co-creating data on identity formation in transition towns. This paper argues that arts-based research serves as a valuable tool for understanding and indeed contribute to inclusive participatory making of identities in transition towns, incorporating more-than-human, more-than-textual, emotional, situated, and multi-sensual influences. The arts-based research challenges prevailing technocratic and rational frameworks, aligning with ecofeminist Val Plumwood’s call to address the "ecological crisis of reason" that serves to inhibit achieving sustainable futues. By highlighting how ABR enriches a more-than-human "lived-experiences approach" to transition research, this paper contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of identity formation in Sweden’s transition towns.
Author(s): Evers C
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Global Social Challenges Journal
Year: 2024
Pages: 1-22
Online publication date: 15/07/2024
Acceptance date: 15/06/2024
ISSN (electronic): 2752-3349
Publisher: Bristol University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1332/27523349Y2024D000000019
DOI: 10.1332/27523349Y2024D000000019
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