Temporal analysis of resilience, social cohesion and impacts of climate change
Role of memories / traditions in building proactive or reactive resilience
Community action in response to environmental challenges
The temporal analysis deals with an overall oral history methodological approach, based on semi-structured face-to-face interviews with open ended questions as well as biographical and life narrative interviews with local residents and migrants.
Spatial analysis of resilience, social cohesion and impacts of climate change
Mobility and diversity in the selected neighbourhoods through the migration component
Spatial and practical initiatives in response to environmental challenges
Semi-structured interviews, as well as participatory focus groups where necessary to study group dynamics, will be used to understand perceptions, understandings and experiences related to everyday life in the neighbourhood. This includes individuals interviews with community representatives. In addition, ethnographic observation of the local rhythms and patterns of everyday life will also be conducted to reflect the diversity of communities’ initiatives and the heterogeneity of these practices that aim to face the climate change.
A mix of research methods
The interdisciplinarity of the field of performance studies suggests a mix of research methods. To investigate the relationship between the neighbourhood, as a social, geographic, conceptual and lived space, and the social actions of residents that shape the neighbourhood, the project adopts a multidisciplinary mixed method format, used in both social and environmental sciences. Whilst each respective study (1 and 2) requires their own specific set of methods, an overall Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach will be applied to bridge both studies. This PAR relies on the use of observational data collection tools. In combination with the PAR and implementation of the two studies, the project will make use of story-maps, based on data collection during the inception seminar and throughout the fieldwork periods on location.
