Axel Rosenberg

• Beames, Simon; Høyem, Jannicke; van Kraalingen, Imre; Eriksen, Jørgen Weidemann; Vold, Thomas & Abelsen, Kristian [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). The Jacket: Making Sustainable Clothing Choices in Outdoor Education. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education (CJEE). ISSN 1205-5352. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Amidst a vast jungle of products, brands, materials, labels, and systems of global trade and production, it has become increasingly challenging to make consumption choices that may be considered “sustainable”. This inquiry examines the decision-making process of a team of university outdoor environmental educators, as they puzzled over the most appropriate shell jacket to purchase for their outdoor teaching. The project’s first aim was to determine the team’s most important features of sustainability with regard to clothing procurement, while the second was to interrogate these features in relation to germane literature and guidance. Driven by a practitioner inquiry approach, the team of eight interrogated their own beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge about outdoor clothing over seven months. Data were generated through four group discussions, where the content from each was thematically analyzed and then used as a platform for the following meeting. Ultimately, four factors emerged as central to informing their outdoor clothing purchases: (1) durability, (2) assurances of ecologically friendly production, (3) assurances of fair labour conditions, and (4) underlying socio-political motivators. Navigating the varied and shifting ground of eco-labels and certifications in relation to environmental sustainability and fair labour conditions is highlighted as a central challenge to making nature- and human-friendly purchases. Interrogating the drivers and surrounding information around material consumption is positioned as a valuable pedagogical enterprise in itself. Keywords: outdoor education; outdoor recreation; clothing; sustainability; eco-labels; practitioner inquiry

• Rosenberg, Axel; Lynch, Philippa & Radmann, Aage (2021). Sustainability Comes to Life. Nature-Based Adventure Tourism in Norway. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. ISSN 2624-9367. 3, p. 1–16. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2021.686459. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper investigates how tourists and guides perform sustainability during adventure tourism trips in natural environments. The paper draws on empirical data from an ethnographic study of five different multi-day trips in Norway, each of which used skiing, hiking, or biking as the mode of travel. In our analysis, we focus on how the different actors understood, operationalized and practiced elements of sustainability in their everyday lives while on the trips. The paper applies a micro-sociological perspective to the nature-based adventure tourism scene where the interplay between tourists, guides, adventure activities and nature is understood as multiple dialectic performances co-produced by the different actors. Goffman's dramaturgical metaphors, and concepts of frames, appearance, and manner saturate recent research on tourism and nature guiding. This paper builds on the “performance turn” as a theoretical point of departure for understanding sustainability in nature-based adventure tourism experiences. In participant observations and post-trip interviews with Norwegian and international tourists and their guides, we found that sustainability performances were not a major aspect of the trips. We did find some performances of mainly “light” sustainability and, among them, elements of ambivalence and ambiguity. Our data indicate that some guides tread a fine line between enhancing and deepening tourists' experiences of nature and sustainability or negatively impacting the perceived enjoyment imperative of the trip. International tourists expressed deeper sustainability overall. We reflect on the relative explanatory strengths of Goffman's “frames” and interaction order, and Persson's “framing,” for understanding the interplay between guide and tourist sustainability performances and conclude with pointers for teasing out the complexities we identify.

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• Høyem, Jannicke; Beames, Simon & Rosenberg, Axel (2022). Jakten på den perfekte jakka. . [Journal]. Fri Flyt.
• Høyem, Jannicke; Beames, Simon; Eriksen, Jørgen Weidemann; Rosenberg, Axel; Vold, Thomas & van Kraalingen, Imre [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Skall - skal ikke? www.utemagasinet.no.
• Eriksen, Jørgen Weidemann; Augestad, Trond & Rosenberg, Axel (2019). Bruk av digitale verktøy i friluftslivsutdanning. In Hallandvik, Linda & Høyem, Jannicke (Ed.), Friluftslivspedagogikk. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 978-8202575830. p. 122–137.

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