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Attending to Climate and Environmental Hope, Despair, and Repair Through Storytelling

Fri, April 25, 3:20 to 4:50pm MDT (3:20 to 4:50pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3A

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

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Youths’ climate grief and anxiety are on the rise, while youths’ environmental activism is increasing globally. This indicates promise in cultivating understanding of the intertwining of ecological, political, and cultural systems that iteratively shape humans’ and more-than-humans’ thriving. How can we accentuate the urgency and damage of climate change without perpetuating fear and despair? This structured poster session focuses on the potential of climate and environmental storytelling as a form of sensemaking, place-making, and world-building. We feature stories told by immigrant gardeners, Inuit youth and Elders, minoritized youth, climate activists, and educators that engage ecological imaginaries that center relationality with nature and place. The stories and our analyses highlight intersections of environmental education, colonialist logics, policy, and power.

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