Mobilized villages: local community agency during the Swedish wildfires in 2018 and the process of re-orientation towards the future

In the summer of 2018, wildfires erupted in Swedish forests at a magnitude without precedence in modern Swedish history. The purpose of this project is to study how local communities particularly affected by the wildfires in 2018 mobilized local resources to cope with the crisis, how local residents narrate the crisis and its aftermath, and what the crisis led to in terms of strategies and awareness of sustainable development in the future. Through digital ethnography, qualitative interviews and focus group interviews the project examines three questions: 1.
How did local residents act during the actual events of the wildfire? 2. How are the wildfires and the mobilizations remembered and narrated? 3. Does local history and forestry traditions and practices impact on how local communities imagine possible futures? Through an ethnographic approach, we wish to capture the tensions between the past, the present and the possible future, with the idea of trying to show the potential for resilient communities in a world of global climate change. This study contributes ethnographic insight into how disaster can be managed and how it changes individual and collective cultural norms and conceptions of time, as well as management of resources in local communities.
The data consists of pseudonymized transcripts of interviews. Accessible metadata describes the interviews.

2018年夏季，瑞典森林爆发了瑞典现代史上规模空前的森林野火。本项目旨在探究2018年受该野火严重影响的当地社区如何动员本地资源应对危机，当地居民如何讲述这场危机及其后续影响，以及这场危机对未来可持续发展的战略与认知产生了何种变革。本研究通过数字民族志、质性访谈与焦点小组访谈三种研究方法，围绕三大核心问题展开考察：1. 当地居民在野火暴发期间采取了何种应对行动？2. 人们如何记忆并讲述这场野火与应急动员过程？3. 本地历史与林业传统实践是否会影响当地社区对未来可能性的构想？本研究采用民族志研究路径，旨在捕捉过去、当下与潜在未来之间的张力，以期展现全球气候变化背景下韧性社区的发展潜能。本研究为灾害治理领域提供了民族志视角的洞见，揭示了灾害如何重塑个体与集体的文化规范、时间观念，以及当地社区的资源管理模式。本数据集包含经过匿名化处理的访谈转录文本，配套的可访问元数据可对访谈相关信息进行详细说明。