‘Plurizing’ the Stories Instead of ‘Monostorying’ Our Narratives! Exploring the Story Completion Method as a Portal Into Climate Change, Future, Imaginations, and Hope.
(2024) HEKM51 20241Department of Human Geography
Human Ecology
- Abstract
- Modernity, language and western culture are some of the explanations of why ‘the climate crisis can be perceived as a crisis of our imagination’. These concerns around storytelling are investigated based on the degrowth concept of ‘decolonization of the imaginary’ and sociological theories on the absence of socio-ecological imaginations. I build upon the novel method Story Completion (SC) that investigates perceptions and social constructions, adapting it as part of a larger toolkit aimed to instigate deep level discussions on mindsets and hope in the context of the climate crisis. My analysis shows patterns of tensions between utopian and dystopian imaginaries which channeled the development of a visionary matrix. By introducing the... (More)
- Modernity, language and western culture are some of the explanations of why ‘the climate crisis can be perceived as a crisis of our imagination’. These concerns around storytelling are investigated based on the degrowth concept of ‘decolonization of the imaginary’ and sociological theories on the absence of socio-ecological imaginations. I build upon the novel method Story Completion (SC) that investigates perceptions and social constructions, adapting it as part of a larger toolkit aimed to instigate deep level discussions on mindsets and hope in the context of the climate crisis. My analysis shows patterns of tensions between utopian and dystopian imaginaries which channeled the development of a visionary matrix. By introducing the concepts of ‘plurizing transtopia’ and ‘monostorying limitopia’, I nuance what is often perceived as a simplistic utopian/dystopian binary. Results show that in a collective process of mentally contrasting current societie's climate change response through futuristic trajectories, it is not the utopian/dystopian character that is important, but rather, its visionary capacities beyond dark or light outlooks. The societal impact of this research is to potentially facilitate collective spaces containing the possibilities to turn despair into hope. (Less)
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- author
- Appelros, Michelle LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- HEKM51 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- ‘Climate change perception’, Story completion method, ‘utopian visioning’, collective hope, ‘socio-ecological imaginaries’, fiction
- language
- English
- id
- 9151813
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- 2024-07-24 11:06:33
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title = {{‘Plurizing’ the Stories Instead of ‘Monostorying’ Our Narratives! Exploring the Story Completion Method as a Portal Into Climate Change, Future, Imaginations, and Hope.}},
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