Skillful Engagement with Community Perceptions of Climate Change in Morocco

Abstract

What does it mean to seek out stories? How do I talk about my own life story? Where do I find activists who might tell me the story of their work? How can I receive these stories and what might we learn? These are questions I contend with as I prepare to leave for Morocco. My research leads me around the country, to beautiful conversations on rooftops and climate workshops with activists. I bring these moments with me to Duluth, where I seek out experiences to carry on the conversation and understand my work across contexts. My research builds frames as I begin to notice the skills for engaging with climate change in the words of the activists I speak with. In all of this, I recognize that the work calls into being a new question that might reveal what it is I hope to know. How do we support and empower one another to find the climate narrative that is also the story of our one-and-only life?