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Storytelling offers powerful methods for understanding nature-society interactions. This approach enriches environmental justice and political ecology research by analyzing complex socio-natures through narrative.

Area of Science:

  • Social Sciences
  • Humanities
  • Environmental Studies

Background:

  • Growing interest in narrative, story, and storytelling across disciplines.
  • Leverages established scholarship from Indigenous, Black, and Feminist traditions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Explore the potential of eliciting, sharing, and analyzing stories for nature-society studies.
  • Examine contributions, methodological, analytical, political, and transformative potential of storytelling.
  • Enrich, broaden, and deepen research in nature-society, political ecology, and environmental justice.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative analysis of narrative and storytelling.
  • Synthesis of existing scholarship on story in social and environmental research.
  • Examination of methodological and analytical frameworks for story-based research.
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Narrativemethodsstorystorytelling political ecologytransformation

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