Tales of Transformation: Working with Narratives for Climate-Just Futures
摘要
The climate crisis is, in part, a storytelling crisis. This idea has motivated my work as a climate justice activist in Germany and the UK for the past decade. Here, I introduce how I have combined creative practices (e.g., Theatre of the Oppressed, mindfulness, storytelling) into a method—“Tales of Transformation”—that works with stories and narratives for climate justice. This approach helps deconstruct existing, often limiting, climate narratives and their internalized effects and facilitates an imaginative and reflective exploration into alternative, empowering, and regenerative narratives, allowing activists to craft imaginaries where environmental degradation has been overcome. The method includes embodied, emotional, intuitive, or spiritual knowledge in these processes of deconstruction and world-making.