TY - JOUR
T1 - Recipes for Resilience: Engaging Caribbean Youth in Climate Action and Food Heritage through Stories and Song
AU - Plummer, Nicole
AU - Wilson, Marisa
AU - Yaneva-toraman, Inna
AU - Mckenzie, Charmaine
AU - Mitchell, Sylvia
AU - Northover, Patricia
AU - Crowley, Kate
AU - Edwards, Thera
AU - Richards, Anthony
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, grant number AH/W004550/1.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank Reginald Burke and Elijah James for their support of the project and the collection of the raw data and CYEN and BOU for their participation in this project. We would also like to thank the Song Academy for their facilitation of the songwriting workshop and the follow-up production that led to the co-creation of the song “Food and Resistance for Climate Resilience”. We would like to express gratitude to Eduardo Serafin, who provided the technical support that made the workshop sessions via Zoom possible. Finally, we thank the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, whose funding made this project possible.
Funding Information:
Effective communication depends upon a range of complex and often subtle factors and necessitates a substantive understanding of the intended recipient: their environment, habits, values, and so on []. In this paper, we illustrate how innovative arts and humanities methods can help overcome problems with the information-deficit model, for communicating climate awareness and risks. Methods such as storytelling and music can enhance researchers’ and practitioners’ understanding of people’s experiences, practices, and knowledge, allowing them to engage with climate change in familiar ways and to feel they have some degree of control to respond to the problem [,]. We demonstrate this by sharing creative methods and results from a recent collaborative research project, Recipes for Resilience: Engaging Caribbean Youth in Climate Action and Afrodescendant Food Heritage through Storytelling and Song, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK Research and Innovation.
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© 2022 by the authors.
PY - 2022/7/16
Y1 - 2022/7/16
N2 - This paper presents findings from the Recipes for Resilience project, an international, interdisciplinary collaboration between Caribbean and UK scholars of history, geography, anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, ethnobotany, and climate-risk studies, and the research partners, the Caribbean Youth Environment Network. The purpose of the project was to investigate how agrifood heritage may be mobilized in creative ways to engage Caribbean youth in climate action and justice. The project utilized arts and humanities methods, such as storytelling, songwriting, online games, and brief research-led talks, culminating in the co-created song: “Food and Resistance for Climate Resilience”. The results of the project provide evidence that climate action requires arts and humanities methods to appeal to youth, as opposed to purely fact-based or scientific forms of climate communication. We conclude that co-creative methods such as music and storytelling can inspire youth to engage in climate action, in this case through a (re)valuation culinary and agricultural heritage.
AB - This paper presents findings from the Recipes for Resilience project, an international, interdisciplinary collaboration between Caribbean and UK scholars of history, geography, anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, ethnobotany, and climate-risk studies, and the research partners, the Caribbean Youth Environment Network. The purpose of the project was to investigate how agrifood heritage may be mobilized in creative ways to engage Caribbean youth in climate action and justice. The project utilized arts and humanities methods, such as storytelling, songwriting, online games, and brief research-led talks, culminating in the co-created song: “Food and Resistance for Climate Resilience”. The results of the project provide evidence that climate action requires arts and humanities methods to appeal to youth, as opposed to purely fact-based or scientific forms of climate communication. We conclude that co-creative methods such as music and storytelling can inspire youth to engage in climate action, in this case through a (re)valuation culinary and agricultural heritage.
U2 - 10.3390/su14148717
DO - 10.3390/su14148717
M3 - Article
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 14
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
IS - 14
M1 - 8717
ER -