Beyond Fires & Floods, Pt 3

MEDIA INDIGENA 368 // Synopsis

Part 3 of Beyond Fires and Floods (BFF) features the opening portion of ‘Storytellers Without Borders,’ the first in our second day’s sessions, where we discuss what and whom climate change stories currently serve—to what extent is what we’re experiencing global change or continuity? As inheritors of a world wrought by centuries of extraction and colonialism, the deeply globalized structures and systems we now live in and with are the consequence of competing empires’ efforts to terraform our territories. Yet so much of mainstream climate journalism is confined to nationalist narratives of technosaviourism, where petro-states promise a pivot to eco-states in hopes of preserving the socio-economic status quo. In this session—featuring panelists Tristan Ahtone, Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Deborah McGregor, and Stephanie Wood—we explored why our narrative lens(es) on climate change must be commensurate with the scale of global forces driving it.

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