Trust as a sensory mode of engaging culturally diverse communities in net zero futures

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ID4364501
AuthorsE Quilty (0000-0002-7270-0255, Monash University, corresponding author), Sarah Pink (0000-0003-0073-8382, Monash University)
Year2025
Volume20
Issue1
Pages1-15
Publication date2025-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Senses and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17458927.2024.2350810
OpenAlexW4396811606
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited35

This article examines the role of trust - as a sensory mode of knowing and engaging in everyday environments - in generating community-based routes toward sustainable futures in a culturally diverse situation. To do this we outline a theory of trust and apply trust as a conceptual frame for understanding international students' relationships to their everyday environments. We focus on how trust can participate in carving new pathways to net zero carbon emissions, in processes whereby decolonization and decarbonization become interwoven trajectories. In doing so, we draw on ethnographic research undertaken with culturally diverse local and international students and staff on a university campus committed to working toward net zero emissions. Treating such sites as living labs for investigating how net zero comes about simultaneously demonstrates and surfaces the role of sensory and embodied modes of trust and engagement in this process. Thus, we argue that trust and the sensory knowing it entails offer a conceptual and practical prism with applications across community initiatives

Economics · Financial economics · Futures contract · Human–computer interaction · Mode (computer interface · Net (polyhedron · Zero (linguistics · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Mathematics · Psychology

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