Sense and sustainability: The case of the Slow City movement

Abstract

In this article I draw on recent anthropological literature on the senses to propose a novel approach to sustainable local development. I suggest that attention to how the senses are engaged in both discourses concerning and corporeal experiences of sustainable urban development, can produced insights into how these processes operate. In developing the discussion I draw from examples from ethnographic research in British member towns of the Cittàslow (Slow City) movement.

Acknowledgement

My research about the Cittàslow movement was supported by Loughborough University initially and then by a small grant from the Nuffield Foundation.

Notes

1. Adapted versions of this paragraph are included in my other publications on the topic.

2. http://www.cittaslow.net/pagine.asp?idn=996, accessed 16 August 2006.

3. See the UN Agenda 21 pages at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/index.htm, accessed 21 August 2006.

4. http://www.cittaslow.org.uk/town.php?Tid=1&Pid1=1&PLv=1, accessed 22 August 2006.

5. In a document prepared by David Matson, a consultant working with Cittàslow Diss.

6. See www.south-norfolk.gov.uk, accessed 6 September 2006.

7. See the Skill Builders Ludlow website: http://www.craftsinludlow.co.uk/index.php, accessed 6 September 2006.

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Sarah Pink

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