Storying climate knowledge: Notes on experimental political ecology

Harris, Dylan M.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.08.011

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“…This demographic shift is accompanied by a spatial shift from Mountain View and Palo Alto to San Francisco and its South of Market Street area (Economist, 2014). Relatedly, Silicon Valley’s ability to reinvent itself has meant it remains the pre-eminent focal point of the global technology industry and an example of a successful cluster or EE that many other governments attempt to replicate (Harris and Menzel, 2023). We now have ecosystem rankings (e.g., StartupBlink; StartupGenome) and ecosystem ‘playbooks’ (Kauffman, 2019) for getting your EE higher up on these global rankings.…”

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“…It can be suggested that this multi-scalar and relational perspective might be even more important for EEs than clusters, given the presence of localised communities meeting with global accelerator networks and global venture capital firms (Florida, 2016). Further research that would be helpful here is to explore transnational entrepreneurs (Brown et al, 2019; Schäfer and Henn, 2018), returnee entrepreneurs (Kenney et al, 2013) or how accelerator and co-working networks expand across EEs (Harris, 2021a; Harris and Menzel, 2023). Furthermore, there is a possibility for new kinds of extra-local connections between EEs and clusters in different places that would broaden our understanding of the various types of connections between different types of systems.…”

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Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?

Harris,

Menzel

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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The entrepreneurial ecosystem concept is now one of the most popular policy tools for regional development following a surge of interest in entrepreneurship-oriented academic circles, yet has experienced little critical engagement within economic geography discourse. We argue that economic geographers should engage with the entrepreneurial ecosystem concept because (1) it describes a shift in spatial socio-economic organisation that has thus far been underexplored by economic geographers and (2) it is an inherently chaotic concept that requires significant conceptual development, not least in relation to the cluster concept. The entrepreneurial ecosystem concept is considered a close relative and potential successor of the cluster concept, which itself rapidly achieved policy stardom despite academic concerns over its conceptual clarity. We argue that there are significant similarities and intersections between the two concepts with implications for broader regional development literatures, enabling economic geographers to enrich academic debates and consequent policy decisions.

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Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?

Harris,

Menzel

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…8 Story has been essential to geography's study of place, 9,10 which has extended to how geographers understand landscapes and environment. 11,12 More specifically, story has become integral to cultural geography, 13,14 creating pathways for thinking with and through mediums like photography and poetry. 15,16 While discourse analysis 17 and narrative policy analysis 18 are widely used geographic methods, less attention, at least explicitly, has been given to story as geographic method.…”

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“…62 This is due, in part, to storytelling's ability to break down complexity into less abstract, more actionable knowledge, 63 reconfiguring and reframing facts to allow people to see multiple possible futures. 64 Given storytelling's capacity for meaningmaking, I argue it is necessary to tell stories with the knowledge that they are critical for engaging in the terrain of struggle. Regarding the climate crisis specifically, stories can counter the hegemonic trend toward apocalypticism, a vision of the crisis that enables certain (often market-based) pathways forward that tend to privilege certain 'genres' (e.g.…”

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Stories, crisis, and meaning-making: storying possibility and community in the terrain of cultural struggle

Harris

2023

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In a time of multiple, competing, and nested crises, the draw to storytelling is intuitive. Stories help us make sense of the world around us. People are drawn to stories because of their emphasis on community, and the way they create possibilities when it feels like there are none. This paper builds upon geographic research on storytelling, articulating how stories are critical for creating meaning in light of crises. Based on 14 months of fieldwork with storytellers in Appalachia and Alaska, two regions facing profound social, climatic, and economic change and with culturally rich storytelling traditions, research for this paper discusses the practice of storytelling, as told by storytellers, and how different approaches to storytelling help address the climate crisis specifically with notes for crises more broadly. Further, considering calls to use storytelling to address climate change, this paper examines and critiques the stories that are currently being told and valued. Finally, this paper outlines the kinds of stories that could be told to address crises, noting specifically how stories are sites of cultural and political struggle.

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“…Therefore, power asymmetries and social inequalities are critical to understanding the power relations between society and nature, embedded in social interests, institutions, knowledge, and imaginaries. In addition, political ecology is defined as the study of environmental conflicts [109,110], whereby conflict is conceptualized as "a recurring, historically-driven, and multiscalar socio-environmental process" [39]. Thus, a focus on conflicts through an analysis of the powers exercised by the implementors and resistors of environmental interventions would offer a conceptual starting point to elaborate on an understanding of justice associated with politics [111].…”

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Energy and Environmental Justice in China: Literature Review and Research Agenda

Wang¹,

Lo²

2023

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Energy and environmental justice (EEJ) is an interdisciplinary field of study that examines the social, economic, and political dimensions of energy and environmental transitions. Studying EEJ in China is crucial as the country accelerates its transition towards environmental sustainability and carbon neutrality, highlighting the need for the development of more equitable energy and environmental policies. This paper offers a comprehensive review of academic research on EEJ in the Chinese context. Our review indicates that Chinese EEJ scholarship has identified instances of injustice in China's energy and ecological transitions and highlighted specific characteristics, including regional disparities, urban-rural inequality, and the disproportionate impact on migrant populations. However, the tendency to apply Western justice principles (e.g., distributive, recognition, and procedural justice) undermines the appreciation of the diverse and contextual interpretations of justice-related research in China. Furthermore, there is a lack of critical justice research that explores the root causes of injustice in China. The review suggests that future research can advance theoretical development by conducting cross-cultural studies, while also adopting a more critical approach that foregrounds the role of power in reproducing injustice. This review is useful for those interested in researching the social justice dimensions of energy and ecological transitions in China.

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Storying climate knowledge: Notes on experimental political ecology

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?

Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?

Stories, crisis, and meaning-making: storying possibility and community in the terrain of cultural struggle

Energy and Environmental Justice in China: Literature Review and Research Agenda

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