Culturally mediated perceptions of climate change risks in New Zealand

Talwar, Smrithi

doi:10.1007/s10584-021-02966-9

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“…What some people perceive as risky, and others might not, is thus not an inherent quality of these risk objects, but instead an outcome of how these objects are framed and constructed, and sometimes created, through cultural, in particular linguistic, practices. Climate change is an apt example: It often cannot be directly sensed or apprehended, but scientific evidence and political discourse render it a highly salient risk (e.g., Talwar, 2021). Most people acknowledge this framing, whereas others remain skeptical, which is why any process of constructing risk objects remains socially differentiated and disputed, even regarding the most obvious hazards, as COVID-19 has shown (Brown, 2020).…”

Section: The Social Relationality Of Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk entanglement and the social relationality of risk

Scheve

Lange

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Relational accounts of risk explain variation in risk perception through situated cognitions defining risk as a relationship between “risk objects” and “objects at risk”. We extend this approach to include not only the relational constitution of cognitive risk objects, but also of the different actors assessing risk. Risk in this perspective is relational because it establishes a link between two different cognitive objects and between two (or more) actors. We argue that this is the case when at least two actors refer to a common risk object while retaining distinct objects at risk. We call this a constellation of risk entanglement across actors. We illustrate our theoretical arguments using data from 68 qualitative interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in the German finance-state nexus. Our analyses indicate how risk entanglement affects and transforms the fundamental logics according to which both of these fields operate.

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Section: The Social Relationality Of Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk entanglement and the social relationality of risk

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Lange

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…It would go beyond the scope of this paper to attempt to give justice to this essential aspect of our country's grappling with our colonial past and with developing pathways to a sustainable future in a bi-cultural partnership. However, applying the ideas of Delanda's (2013Delanda's ( , 2016 material-discursive manifold and assemblage theory to the discourse on local and global multicultural futures would seem like a natural progression from here with a productive environment for research within Aotearoa (Ministry for the Environment, 2007;Talwar, 2021;Tunks, 1997).…”

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Climate change and the assemblages of school leaderships

Everth

Bright

2022

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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Anthropogenic climate change and the necessary transformation of society to mitigate its consequences constitutes an unprecedented educational challenge. Responding to the climate emergency and to society’s awakening climate activism generates a complex situation for school leadership in particular. Here, we report findings from our research with climate activist students and teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand. We argue that school leadership plays a crucial role in enabling student and teacher agency and the development of effective Climate Change Education in schools. We utilise assemblage thinking, situating this within the new materialisms, to conceptualise schools and their leadership as dynamic assemblages, and we discuss teacher and student experiences as actors across such assemblages. We conclude that deterritorialisation and decoding of educational institutions and their leadership practices can promote and enable education to become a driver of the cultural transformation of society that the climate emergency mandates.

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(In)Visible factors affecting people in the spatial appropriation process of urban green spaces in Brazil

Teixeira,

Gifford

2023

urbe, Rev. Bras. Gest. Urbana

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The importance of green areas in urban centers is related to the environmental quality and the sustainable development of these spaces, as well as the desirable interdisciplinary perspective. In addition to their ecological and microclimate functions, urban green spaces contribute to the establishment of a relationship between the environment and human beings, with the potential of stimulating development of sense of place. This study aims to present possible aspects involved in the process of spatial human appropriation in urban green spaces. Squares in Aracaju were the bases for observations of human behavior, which were related to spatial features. The results have revealed that, along with microclimate aspects, spatial composition, and vegetation (presence or absence), other aspects were related to the appropriation process of squares, such as decision-making based on prejudgment, exposure to risks, differentiated perceptions, and sense of vulnerability. Therefore, the qualitative, spatial, and cognitive pieces of information presented may contribute to improve the relationship between humans and environment and, consequently the appropriation of urban green spaces.

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Culturally mediated perceptions of climate change risks in New Zealand

Cited by 3 publications

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Risk entanglement and the social relationality of risk

Risk entanglement and the social relationality of risk

Climate change and the assemblages of school leaderships

(In)Visible factors affecting people in the spatial appropriation process of urban green spaces in Brazil

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