The Power of Narrative in Environmental Networks

Lejano, Raul P.; Ingram, Mrill; Ingram, Helen

doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262019378.001.0001

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“…Our findings that educators foster students' ecological place meanings to ensure student wellbeing and help them envision a more positive future suggest that the narrative research was an appropriate research approach for uncovering alternative interpretations of practices (Lejano, Ingram, & Ingram, 2013). Further, aside from answering our initial research questions, through the holistic representation of students' and educators' experiences, the narratives show the complexity of nurturing ecological place meaning.…”

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Development of Ecological Place Meaning in New York City

Russ

Peters

Krasny

et al. 2015

The Journal of Environmental Education

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Urban environmental education helps students to recognize ecological features and practices of cities. To understand the value and practice of developing such ecological place meaning, we conducted narrative research with educators and students in urban environmental education programs in the Bronx, New York City. Narratives showed that educators are cultivating ecological place meaning to help students appreciate ecological aspects of cities, and develop their imagination of how their environment could be improved. Such ecological place meaning is nurtured through direct experiences with the urban environment, social interactions within educational programs and communities, and development of students' ecological identity.

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confidence: 89%

Development of Ecological Place Meaning in New York City

Russ

Peters

Krasny

et al. 2015

The Journal of Environmental Education

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“…In the context of people's reciprocal transactions with their environments, their goal-oriented behavior may follow the logics of material, biological, or economic advantage, but also can be constructed according to more complex narratives (Lejano et al 2013). Moreover, a transactional approach emphasizes the bidirectional nature of exchange between humans and their environments.…”

Section: Dynamic Features Of Resilient and Non-resilient Systemsmentioning

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Enhancing the Resilience of Human–Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective

Stokols¹,

Lejano²,

Hipp³

2013

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ABSTRACT. Resilience studies build on the notion that phenomena in the real world should be understood as dynamic socialecological systems. However, the scholarly community may not be fully aware that social ecology, as a conceptual framework, has a long intellectual history, nor fully cognizant of its foundational theory. In this article, we trace the intellectual roots and core principles of social ecology and demonstrate how these principles enable a broader conceptualization of resilience than may be found in much of the literature. We then illustrate how the resulting notion of resilience as transactional process and multi-capital formation affords new perspectives on diverse phenomena such as global financial crises and adaptation to environmental stresses to communities and ecosystems. A social-ecological analysis of resilience enables the study of peopleenvironment transactions across varying dimensions, time periods, and scales. Furthermore, in its openness to experiential knowledge and action research, the social ecology framework coheres well with participative-collaborative modes of inquiry, which traverse institutional, epistemological, and scale-related boundaries.

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“…From earlier movement research, we can also assume groups with shared meanings tend to be more stable and successful (Wood 1994). A narrative provides the "glue" binding people together; by providing a sense of common goals, it enables communities to take action even in face of daunting challenges such as climate change (Lejano, Ingram, and Ingram 2013;see also Middlemiss 2011).…”

Section: Shared Climate Narrativementioning

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“…These groups' religious identity and values together provide a shared story or narrative (see Lejano, Ingram, and Ingram 2013) on issues linked to the environment, climate change and the relationship between humans and earth. RMT theorists note in particular how a shared narrative can help motivate action and also strengthen group stability.…”

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Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources

Bomberg

Hague

2018

Local Environment

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This article seeks to explain how and why church congregations mobilise on environmental issues and what -if anything -is distinctive about that mobilisation. Building on and adapting Resource Mobilisation Theory (RMT), we develop the idea of "spiritual resources" to help explain how a collection of spiritual identities, values, symbols and narratives can facilitate distinctive collective action on environmental issues. Our analysis draws on data derived from an in-depth case study of climate active groups in Scotland. It includes content analysis of websites, news stories as well as ethnographic observation of selected church and secular groups engaged in climate activity. We find church groups do enjoy a distinct set of resources -comprising tradition, rituals and symbols shaped by theology and doctrine -which are not wholly captured by other explanations of climate mobilisation. While these spiritual resources do not directly translate into specific environmental or climate action they can, especially when combined with other resources, lead to environmental activities distinctly motivated, and distinctly practised at the individual and community level. ARTICLE HISTORY

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The Power of Narrative in Environmental Networks

Cited by 108 publications

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Development of Ecological Place Meaning in New York City

Development of Ecological Place Meaning in New York City

Enhancing the Resilience of Human–Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective

Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources

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Cited by 108 publications

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Development of Ecological Place Meaning in New York City

Development of Ecological Place Meaning in New York City

Enhancing the Resilience of Human&#8211;Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective

Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources

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