Sustainability spectacle and ‘post-oil’ greening initiatives

Koch, Natalie

doi:10.1080/09644016.2022.2127481

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“…For example, early in my observations of GEF, I witnessed loud jostling among the oil company representatives—some believed they needed to bring their industry into the future and start investing in renewable energy, while others firmly declared that their job was to sell fossil fuel and nothing more. Just a few years later, such debates had all but disappeared, as industry representatives came to accept—and ultimately rework—the story of sustainability to keep their long‐term economic prospects viable (Koch, 2022, 2023b). My event ethnographies thus allowed me to see how industry events are pivotal in “shaping how corporate and government leaders seek to both retain control over energy systems, over their profits, and over the post‐oil future itself” (Koch, 2022, p. 10).…”

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Event ethnography: Studying power and politics through events

Koch

2023

Geography Compass

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Event ethnography is a methodological tool that involves ethnographic research on or at events. “Events” are activities, gatherings, and collective experiences that are limited in time and are highly diverse in their scope, organization, and thematic organization. Because of their temporary nature, events serve as unique venues for the convergence of actors who are usually spatially, temporally, and socially dispersed. Ethnographic research at events thus offers scholars a useful window onto how power relations are formed through the concentrated interaction among individuals, ideas, affects, and infrastructures. This article defines “event ethnography” and surveys the existing literature that examines events through ethnographic research. It suggests that taking events seriously for fieldwork has the potential to open up new questions for political geographers and other scholars interested in power and politics.

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“…Just a few years later, such debates had all but disappeared, as industry representatives came to accept-and ultimately rework-the story of sustainability to keep their long-term economic prospects viable (Koch, 2022(Koch, , 2023b.…”

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Event ethnography: Studying power and politics through events

Koch

2023

Geography Compass

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“…Much of this work also focuses on large‐scale urban development projects and the speculative character of green initiatives and sustainability spectacles across Persian Gulf cities (e.g. Koch, 2023; Rizzo & Petruccioli, 2023; Rizzo, 2017; 2020). The striking thinness of urban scholarship on the Hijaz highlights how urban studies remains deeply uneven.…”

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Makkah's hinterworlds: Jeddah, the Indian Ocean Hajj, and Southeast Asia

Allouache

2024

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Considerations of global or world cities and world city networks have long been analytical and empirical endeavours in urban studies (Taylor, 2004). This has been supplemented by discussions of comparative urbanism and planetary urbanization . There are however, other tracks of urban studies. For instance, Paul Wheatley (1921Wheatley ( -1999, 1 the first editor (1953)(1954)(1955)(1956)(1957)(1958) of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (then known as the Malayan Journal of Tropical Geography) in his final (posthumously published) and remarkable work, The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh Through the Tenth Centuries, 2 epitomizes the longstanding interest in the idea of the 'Islamic city' and efforts to elicit the character of the urban fabric of the Islamic world (Abu-Lughod, 1987). Yet such rich and deeply historical literatures have been marginal to much of the recent debates about comparative urbanism and planetary urbanization, and in particular, the cities of the Hijaz (the western side of Saudi Arabia), seldom feature in the analytical and empirical fields of comparative and critical urban studies, heritage studies, planetary urbanization, and world cities scholarship (for notable exceptions

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The Gulf Momentum in Flux

Sons

2024

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics

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Sustainability spectacle and ‘post-oil’ greening initiatives

Cited by 14 publications

References 39 publications

Event ethnography: Studying power and politics through events

Event ethnography: Studying power and politics through events

Makkah's hinterworlds: Jeddah, the Indian Ocean Hajj, and Southeast Asia

The Gulf Momentum in Flux

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