Storytelling and good relations: Indigenous youth capabilities in climate futures

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dc.contributor.authorMcMeeking, Sacha
dc.contributor.authorTetini-Timoteo M
dc.contributor.authorHayward, Bronwyn
dc.contributor.authorPrendergast, Kate
dc.contributor.authorRatuva, Steven
dc.contributor.authorCrichton-Hill, Yvonne
dc.contributor.authorMayall-Nahi M
dc.contributor.authorWood B
dc.contributor.authorTolbert S
dc.contributor.authorHarré N
dc.contributor.authorMacfarlane A
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-30T22:01:35Z
dc.date.available2025-01-30T22:01:35Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractHow can we support young citizens facing chaotic climate futures? This question is urgent, particularly for Indigenous communities who face disproportionate risks and impacts of climate change. For the past three decades, climate-related education has focused largely on the acquisition of scientific knowledge in instrumental ways, while encouraging individual behaviour change. This approach centres the problem rather than human capabilities to generate solutions, which is especially misaligned with the increasing practice and significance of Indigenous communities’ regenerating self-determining capabilities. This article reports on a pilot study that uses intergenerational storytelling methods or pūrākau to support leadership capabilities among Indigenous Māori and Pacific young people aged 10 to 14 years in communities at high risk of flooding in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand. The study showed how storytelling locates and scaffolds Indigenous young people into positions of individual and collective responsibility for grappling with “wicked problems” such as climate and injustice and climate-related challenges as part of the future they will inherit and shape. within a broader intergenerational journey of resilience and reclamation.
dc.identifier.citationMcMeeking S, Tetini-Timoteo M, Hayward B, Prendergast K, Ratuva S, Crichton-Hill Y, Mayall-Nahi M, Wood B, Tolbert S, Harré N, Macfarlane A (2024). Storytelling and good relations: Indigenous youth capabilities in climate futures. Geographical Research.
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12670
dc.identifier.issn1745-5863
dc.identifier.issn1745-5871
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/107950
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stated
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subjectdecision-making
dc.subjectIndigenous climate activism
dc.subjectIndigenous knowledge
dc.subjectleadership
dc.subjectstorytelling
dc.subjectyouth
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4519 - Other Indigenous data, methodologies and global Indigenous studies::451904 - Global Indigenous studies peoples, society and community
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4519 - Other Indigenous data, methodologies and global Indigenous studies::451902 - Global Indigenous studies environmental knowledges and management
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4519 - Other Indigenous data, methodologies and global Indigenous studies::451901 - Global Indigenous studies culture, language and history
dc.subject.anzsrc41 - Environmental sciences::4101 - Climate change impacts and adaptation::410103 - Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4509 - Ngā mātauranga taiao o te Māori (Māori environmental knowledges)::450904 - Ngā mātauranga taiao o te Māori (Māori environmental knowledges)
dc.subject.anzsrc45 - Indigenous studies::4515 - Pacific Peoples environmental knowledges::451504 - Pacific Peoples environmental knowledges
dc.subject.mshTāngata whenua | Indigenous people (Aotearoa); Māori people; People, Māori
dc.subject.mshTaiao | Ao nui; Environment; History, Natural; Natural history; Nature; World::Whanake taiao | Environmental sustainability; Sustainability, Environmental
dc.subject.mshTaiao | Ao nui; Environment; History, Natural; Natural history; Nature; World
dc.titleStorytelling and good relations: Indigenous youth capabilities in climate futures
dc.typeJournal Article
uc.collegeFaculty of Health
uc.departmentLanguage, Social and Political Sciences
uc.departmentSchool of Health Sciences
uc.departmentFaculty of Education
uc.departmentMacmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies
uc.departmentSchool of Teacher Education
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