The COLOCAL project at IUB-ICCCAD invites you to submit your papers for a special issue in the journal Environmental Science and Policy.
This special issue explores how methodological advances, particularly the use of participatory and creative methods, are being used to co-produce knowledge on and for locally led climate change adaptation (LLA). It will take stock of the opportunities and challenges associated with methodological advances that seek to disrupt established power relations in climate funding, adaptation planning, and academia in realising the transformative goals of LLA. We anticipate it will include contributions from authors working with: visual methods (videography, photovoice, etc.), (digital) storytelling, creative and/or deep listening methods, drawing and art-based methods, and participatory and indigenous research methods. The special issue will include case studies that critically reflect upon the application of participatory and creative methods from across the world, but with a particular focus on the Global South and written by researchers based in the Global South. Methodological advances that help to illuminate social relations that are often rendered invisible within broader planning processes are particularly welcomed.
We are particularly interested in exploring the following questions in the special issue:
- What possibilities, but also dilemmas, do innovative participatory and creative methods generate for LLA research? What are some of the gaps or shortfalls in these methods in the context of LLA and the pursuit of transformations?
- How are participatory and creative methods for knowledge co-production being used to engage with the politics and power relations that shape adaptation processes?
- In what ways are methodological advances furthering our understanding of the local and indigenous knowledges, values and everyday practices that constitute the differentiated lived experiences of local adaptation?
- What evidence exists of the capacity for participatory and creative methods to support transformative adaptation in practice?
- What are the ontologies and epistemologies that support such research approaches, and how are the ethical questions they pose for research practices being addressed?
- How does the funding and governance of climate change adaptation condition methodological advances for LLA?
The full call for papers can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/320948/methodological-advances-for-locally-led-climate-change-adaptation
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by 15 June to matthew.cashmore@nmbu.no.
Please feel free to contact the editors if you have any questions about the call or want to discuss your contribution.
