Enjoying your beach and cleaning it too: a Grounded Theory Ethnography of enviro-leisure activism
Enjoying your beach and cleaning it too: a Grounded Theory Ethnography of enviro-leisure activism
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享受你的海滩并清洁它：环境休闲行动主义的扎根理论民族志
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2021
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通讯作者：
Susann Power
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Susann Power
摘要本研究探讨海滩清洁作为一项环保活动和海岸休闲活动的现象。这一点很重要，因为海滩垃圾继续破坏沿海环境，降低游客满意度。越来越多的个人团体自愿清除海滩上的垃圾。通过使用扎根理论民族志，本研究能够从概念上解释海滩清洁行为，从而产生一个原始的理论“环境休闲行动主义”。在北方尔爱尔兰的海滩清洁工群体16个月后，通过参与者观察和不断的比较分析，反复收集和分析数据，很明显，海滩清洁是一种主要的娱乐活动，位于严重的休闲频谱与竞争的环境和休闲动机。海滩清洁工生活在由合法性、身份和共同的利他主义价值观所界定的社会世界中。他们表现出低水平的专注行动主义和强烈的地方依恋感。讲故事和寻找垃圾成为科普长期存在的垃圾问题的机制。海滩清洁活动可以为旅游规划者提供机会，促进包容性的娱乐家庭活动，吸引新游客到当地的海滩。同样，通过积极主动地与海滩清洁志愿者接触，环境非政府组织和政策制定者可以改进自己的环保行为运动。
Abstract This research explores the phenomenon of beach cleaning as an activity for environmental activism and coastal recreation. This is significant as beach litter continues to blight coastal environments and decreases visitor satisfaction. Increasingly, groups of individuals are voluntarily removing litter from the beach. Through the use of Grounded Theory Ethnography, this research was able to conceptually explain beach cleaning behaviour; thereby producing an original theory of “enviro-leisure activism.” After following groups of beach cleaners in Northern Ireland for 16 months and iteratively collecting and analysing data through participant observation and constant comparison analysis, it became evident that beach cleaning is a predominantly recreational activity, situated on the serious leisure spectrum with competing environmental and leisure motives. Beach cleaners inhabit social worlds bounded by legitimacy, identity and shared altruistic values. They exhibit low-level focused activism and a strong sense of place attachment. Story-telling and litter hunting emerged as mechanisms to cope with the perpetuity of the litter problem. Beach cleaning events could provide opportunities for tourism planners to promote inclusive, recreational family activities and attract new visitors to their local beach. Likewise, by engaging proactively with beach cleaning volunteers, environmental NGOs and policymakers could improve their own pro-environmental behaviour campaigns.