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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book explores how arts practice research can shape place-based approaches to climate justice and action. Through a rich case study of ex-industrial working-class neighbourhoods in Manchester, UK, it examines how experiences of poverty, inequality and ecological loss shape locally driven responses to environmental change.
Drawing on interdisciplinary arts-based methods, including performance, storytelling, folklore and collective making, it reveals how climate knowledge is created through lived experience, care and participation. The book highlights the potential of creative practice to foster community action, while offering critical insights into the opportunities, challenges and complexities of collaborative research and social transformation.
Introduction
Part 1: Our Green and Pleasant Land: Making and Performing Community and Climate Resilience Through Folk Pageantry
1. The Pageant Form: Embedded Arts-Based Practice for Storymaking and Community Creation
2. Parading Myths and Legends: A Public Retelling of the Ballad of St George
3. Our Green and Pleasant Land: Performing Community Action
Part 2: Streets like These: Modelling Deep Listening and Sensory Curiosity Through Sound Art and Animation for Community Climate Justice
4. Creatively Exploring Place: Walking, Photography, Mapping
5. Getting to Know You: Community Reclaiming the Narrative Through Conversation and Voice Prosody
6. Urban Animations: Collaboration Across Mediums to Uplift Climate Justice Concerns
Part 3: Hidden in the Soil and Scrub: Literary and Illustrative Storytelling on Urban Development Injustices and the Multispecies Commons
7. Honouring Industrial and Post-industrial Lives and Materialities
8. Story Structure and the Telling of Multispecies Narratives
9. Collaboration Across Illustration and Literary Practices to Generate Empathy and Care
Conclusion