Telling Stories about Climate Change

Harris, Dylan M.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2019.1686996

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“…Everyday lives and bodies are immersed within this context, “grating against” Earth’s “textured materiality – choking on its dust,” inhaling pollution particulates, wading through submerging waters, and baking in the sun (Billé, 2017). The Anthropocene thus necessitates further experimentation and development of methods that grapple with Earthly volumes and lived experiences of them (see Harris, 2020).…”

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Forging volumetric methods

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2021

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The last two decades have seen a "volumetric turn" within Anglophone social sciences and humanities scholarship. This turn is premised on the idea that space may be better understood in three-dimensional termswith complex heights and depthsrather than as a series of two-dimensional areas or surfaces. While there is an increasingly diverse and rich set of scholarship accounting for voluminous complexities in the air, oceans, ice, mountains, and undergrounds, all too often this work foregrounds state and military-led approaches to volume. This has resulted in a limited methodological toolkit through which to explore voluminous complexities as they emerge and extend beyond military and state contexts. Often reliant on elite interviews, archives, and cartographies, there has been little critical discussion of both methodological practice and the "flatness" of research outputs articulating three-dimensional worlds. In this paper we address this by foregrounding the role of immersive and multisensory methodologies (sounding volumes, seeing-sensing drone volumes, and object volumes). To conclude, we offer avenues for further inquiry, including attending to shifting everyday voluminous experiences in the Anthropocene, and the need to diversify the communication of "volume" research.

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“…In academic discussions on storytelling, storytelling is rarely precisely defined. However, storytelling is generally understood to be vital to cognition, and building histories and narratives, and thus to promoting social progress (Harris, 2019).…”

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“…Public engagement has grown recently, with humanities and social science scholars even more active than science, technology, engineering and mathematics researchers in the UK (Hamlyn et al, 2015). Engaging accessibly with nonacademic audiences is particularly important for issues of global significance, including social justice (Borum Chattoo and Feldman, 2017;Cameron, 2015) and climate change (Harris, 2019;Moezzi et al, 2017;Veland et al, 2018), as discussed in our stories. Engaging with non-academic audiences is a key motivation to use research storytelling (Burchell et al, 2017;Cerrato et al, 2018;ElShafie, 2018).…”

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Bringing research alive through stories: reflecting on research storytelling as a public engagement method

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Stories are vital in making sense of our lives – and research. Consequently, 12 researchers from the University of Sheffield underwent a three-month training process from September to November 2019 to learn how to shape their research experiences into accessible, ten-minute, spoken stories. This culminated in a storytelling evening as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science, at which researchers from different disciplines discussed various nature–society dynamics in diverse field sites in the Global South. By reflecting on the training process and the performance through qualitative interviews with storytellers and audience members, our study answers the research question: What lessons emerge from an interdisciplinary group of researchers engaging with research storytelling for public engagement? Our study addresses gaps in the literature by focusing on interdisciplinary research storytelling, spoken ten-minute stories, bringing together storytellers’ and audience’s viewpoints, and providing practical recommendations for researchers and practitioners. We argue that research storytelling can have diverse benefits for both researchers and listeners by promoting learning in an accessible format, boosting self-confidence and helping (un/re)learn scholarly communication. However, professional guidance and peer support, as well as ethical sensitivity, are crucial.

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“…The story apparently had an impact as one representative requested that she follow up with him to give her thoughts on a bill he was considering. This is not the first or last story to assist a scientist in articulating the importance of their work: there is a growing field of research regarding the effectiveness of storytelling as a means of communication for environmental science (Sundin et al 2018, Harris 2019, Lidskog et al 2020. Chiefly focused on climate change but certainly having implications for many other environmental matters, this research indicates that scientists hoping to communicate their work may have a means of connecting with their audience that is by no means new but certainly deserves to be explored in a new light (Sundin et al 2018).…”

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‘The moral of the story is…’: telling your environmental research story to policymakers

Saylor

2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Recent research suggests that bringing narrative to communication on environmental science may improve that communication’s effectiveness and motivate action. Policymakers need input from scientists in order to make informed, evidence-based decisions, and storytelling may serve as an excellent way to provide these policymakers with the science they need in an easy-to-digest format. In this perspective article, story elements, including setting, characters, plot, and moral, are explored as they relate to environmental science communication, often with regards to climates change. There are challenges to storytelling, and it is not always the right medium for environmental science communication, but it may prove very helpful when engaging policymakers.

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Telling Stories about Climate Change

Cited by 27 publications

References 39 publications

Forging volumetric methods

Forging volumetric methods

Bringing research alive through stories: reflecting on research storytelling as a public engagement method

‘The moral of the story is…’: telling your environmental research story to policymakers

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