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GREENING BONNAROO: EXPLORING THE RHETORIC AND REALITY OF A SUSTAINABLE FESTIVAL THROUGH MICRO-ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS,[object Object],James Kennell & RebekahSitz,[object Object],Department of Marketing, Events and Tourism,[object Object],University of Greenwich,[object Object]
THE BONNAROO MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL,[object Object],4 day, multi-stage camping festival held in Manchester Tennessee,[object Object],70-80,000 attendees,[object Object],“The American music festival to end all festivals” Rolling Stone Magazine,[object Object]
BONNAROO AND SUSTAINABILITY,[object Object],“Bonnaroo is committed to investing the extensive time and resources necessary to be a leader in creating a sustainable festival. From our inception, the festival has strived to make the most sustainable choices while maintaining the ultimate experience for the fan, setting the standard in sustainability and greening practices for North American festivals.”,[object Object]
GREEN EVENTS AND THE EVENT EXPERIENCE,[object Object],A green event is a kind of event that ,[object Object],“has a sustainability policy or incorporates sustainable ,[object Object],practices into its management and operations.” ,[object Object],(Laing & Frost 2010: 262),[object Object],Experiences at these events are under-researched ,[object Object],At Bonnaroo, the attendee is in a position of,[object Object],co-makership (Richards & Wilson 2007) in greening  the event,[object Object],The event experience at Bonnaroo provides a prism through which to critique these greening policies,[object Object]
ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS IN EVENTS RESEARCH,[object Object],Tendency to focus on ‘othered’ events,[object Object],Has become part of the social sciences toolkit over 30 years in the UK and US,[object Object],Events research dominated by positivistic and quantitative approaches (Holloway et al 2010),[object Object],As the discipline ‘beds in’ more eclectic methodological choices are being made,[object Object],e.g. ,[object Object],Participant observation,[object Object],Photography,[object Object],Auto-photography,[object Object],Auto-ethnography,[object Object],Netnography,[object Object]
MICRO-ETHNOGRAPHY,[object Object],Makes no claims to total immersion or privileged knowledge,[object Object],“the study of a smaller experience or a slice of everyday reality.” (Smith 1978 in Stokrocki, 1997: 35) ,[object Object],Uses the toolkit of ethnography under acknowledged limitations,[object Object],A set of tools that can be applied within brief time frames and at low cost,[object Object],Aims to access experiences from an ‘insider’ perspective,[object Object]
CASE STUDY METHODOLOGY,[object Object]
DOING ETHNOGRAPHY AT BONNAROO,[object Object],Working with the Planet-Roo coordinator on vendor management, artist liaison and stage production,[object Object],Rebekah volunteered as a ‘Planet Roo’ ambassador and was upgraded to an internship,[object Object],Camped at the festival and spent time working alongside volunteers, enjoying the event and carrying out research,[object Object]
FINDINGS: 1 – EDUCATION ACTIVITIES,[object Object]
FINDINGS: 2 – SPACES OF HYPER-SUSTAINABILITY,[object Object]
FINDINGS: 3 – GREEN VALUES VS. EVENT VALUES,[object Object],“Yeah, I’d like to see more going on outside the concert areas and um, definitely more organisation around more um, a community sense out there with…with focus on…I mean, I don’t if you were there when everyone leaves, the place is destroyed and it’s just Trashed and while Clean Vibes does an amazing job of cleaning up after everyone…people should clean up after themselves.” (Event manager),[object Object]
CONCLUSIONS,[object Object],“I’d like to see, almost that we work towards a goal that we don’t even need a Planet Roo anymore because it’s soooo well known, people know so much about what we do, that it’s integrated so that every decision we make for the festival, that they just, all they need to do is know that they’re showing up and it’s integrated into every decision that we make instead of it being relegated into an eco-village area.” (Bonnaroo manager),[object Object]

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  1. Greener festival – one of 6 global ‘outstanding’ awards in 2008 & 2009Huffington Post – one of the ten best efforts to green the music industryNew York Times – highlights its green credentials in 2010
  2. Laing, J. & Fox, W. (2010) ‘ How green was my festival: Exploring challenges and opportunities associated with staging green events’ in International Journal of Hospitality Management, Vol.29, pp.261-267
  3. ‘other’ events – Getz 2007Domination of positivism and quants - Holloway, I., Brown, L. & Shipway, R. (2010) ‘Meaning not measurement: Using ethnography to bring a deeper understanding to the participant experience of festivals and events’ in International Journal of Event and Festival Management, Vol.1, No.1, pp.74-85“Although there are some foundational uses of ethnographic methods in the events management literature (e.g. Seaton 1997, O’Neill et al 1999), ethnography is still not seen as a mainstream choice for events management research, which is still dominated by positivist paradigms and quantitative methods (Holloway et al 2010). Carlsen (2003) includes participant and non-participant observation as methodological options when evaluating festivals and events. In particular, Carlsen states the value of using observation as a method for evaluating the visitor experience. This area of events research has been the most frequent field in which ethnographic methods have been used. For example, Anderson (2008) recently carried out participant observation in studying the V-Festival in the UK as part of a qualitative methodology, in order to access the attendee experience. Increasingly, netnographic methods are being developed that apply ethnographic principles to the study of the event experience, making use of the resource offered by online communities of event attendees, volunteers and fans (e.g. Laws & Bevan 2007 & Morgan 2008). This research aims to add to this growing body of methodological literature and to provide a case study of how these methods can be applied in practice using micro-ethnography as a research technique.”
  4. Single embedded case study (Yin 2003)
  5. “Baudriallard (1994) identifies the hyper-real as that which comes to stand for the real and is taken for it, in a way that masks an underlying reality. We can consider these spaces and activities to be a manifestation of the hyperreal because they stand in place of less sustainable aspects of the festival, whose meaning is masked by the high-profile greening activities that take place on site. For example, in 2005 research found that attendees travelled from all 50 states of the USA and from 24 countries (Arik & Penn 2005). Our research found that the majority of attendees asked came using air and / or private cars as transport, agreeing with the 2005 study which found that 92% of attendees came using private transport. Robins et al (2007: 304) highlight that ‘congestion, noise, visual intrusion and the deterioration of local air quality are all important externalities generated by high car shares”, and to this list we can add the general contribution made to global warming through this, an issue which Bonnaroo seeks explicitly to address”