Developing modes of storytelling for public engagement in environmental policy [CONTEXTUAL PDF]
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2440
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Ramsey Rural Museum, Cambridgeshire; Peterborough Museum; BabaDogo, Nairobi, Kenya
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
- June
- Year of first performance
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This represents practice-led research across multiple projects, documented and articulated in the four accompanying videos and book chapter, interrogating how storytelling might enhance public engagement in environmental policy. This work initially grew out of a research visit to Sardinia in 2015 to witness a traditional community conflict resolution tool (La Rasgioni), which took the form of a public storytelling performance within the
theatrical framework of a mock courtroom. Liguori and Wilson then adapted the form into ‘The Reasons’ to support public debate around water dilemmas in the Cambridgeshire Fens, where they were working as part of the RCUK Drought and Water Scarcity programme. ‘The
Reasons’ was performed twice in Cambridgeshire and presented at the AHRC Utopia Festival in London in 2016. Liguori and Wilson subsequently developed this practice further through their GCRF work in Nairobi, resulting in a new and culturally specific iteration of ‘The Reasons’, performed by residents of Korogocho to enable public debate around waste management in the slum, in September 2019, as part of UN-Live’s ‘Mark My City’ initiative.
This practice has generated new methods of practice-led storytelling research, whereby the benefits of digital storytelling are combined with the social and community-building aspects of live, co-present storytelling performance to create a new hybrid form of storytelling.
This work has also enabled the team to develop and test new theories of storytelling as a complete knowledge system that might interact with other (scientific, technocratic, etc.) knowledge systems. As a result, ‘The Reasons’ was developed as both a performance event and an innovative research methodology. This work has generated new insights into storytelling as a mode of thinking, knowing and interrogating experience, as well as effective ways of using storytelling practice as a research approach and how it might contribute to policy development.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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