In the context of a global climate emergency, social scientists increasingly turn to life stories to understand how communities learn to be and become with climate change, and build bridges across difference in ways that are attentive to uneven vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities. Yet, while much work has been done to examine people’s connections to and understandings of climate in and through place, less attention has been paid to climate knowledge mobilities as people move, often across borders, due to climate or other reasons, and the role these travelling climate knowledges may have in thinking with climate within and across destination communities.This workshop aims to explore the role of stories and storytelling in the context of climate change and mobilities.

We aim to set up a dialogue where we can collectively share, listen, translate, and collate our stories as these are shaped and reshaped through encounters with climate as we move across geographies, temporarily or permanently. We will develop story circles where we will share situated and transboundary lived experiences with climate and will exercise the translation work required to move from stories to counter-narratives and demands for action.

This workshop is in principle open to all students and staff. If you would like more details, and would like to join us in this exploratory work, please fill out this form by Friday, 15 November 2024.

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