Power and participation: narrative framings of disaster, climate change, and health in Arctic North America
Disasters are the outcome of social, political, and economic conditions and processes, particularly in the context of climate change. However, dominant narratives of climate change and health persistently frame climate change as an external threat and driver of harm. This obscures the root causes of...
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ftwhiterose:oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:32265 2023-07-30T03:59:41+02:00 Power and participation: narrative framings of disaster, climate change, and health in Arctic North America Davis, Katherine Amelia 2022-08 https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/32265/ unknown Davis, Katherine Amelia orcid:0000-0001-6936-4222 (2022) Power and participation: narrative framings of disaster, climate change, and health in Arctic North America. PhD thesis, University of Leeds. Thesis NonPeerReviewed 2022 ftwhiterose 2023-07-13T22:33:11Z Disasters are the outcome of social, political, and economic conditions and processes, particularly in the context of climate change. However, dominant narratives of climate change and health persistently frame climate change as an external threat and driver of harm. This obscures the root causes of disaster, such as inequity, colonialism, and poor governance. There are increasing calls to shift dominant narratives on climate change to encompass the root causes of disaster, and interest in the re-telling of climate change and health narratives from Indigenous perspectives. This thesis critically analyses the root causes of disaster for Inuit in Arctic North America (a region experiencing rapid climatic change), the ways that these are addressed in narratives about climate change and health, and how these narratives are constructed. Specifically, it focuses on the ongoing disruption of time spent on the land, which is reported to impact the physical and emotional health of Inuit as a ‘creeping disaster’, and which has been linked by some to climate change. First, based on the ‘forensic investigations of disaster’ approach, the literature is systematically reviewed, using qualitative causal analysis, to identify the root causes of constrained mobility for Inuit in Arctic North America. It identifies barriers to time spent on the land, which are driven by processes of governance and inequality, as opposed to environmental hazards. Second, narrative analysis is used to unpack how Canadian government policy frames the problems, solutions, and responsibilities of health and climate change. Findings suggest that dominant narratives do not engage with the social determinants of health or root causes of disaster, and fail to propose solutions that address inequality, power-relations, or colonialism. Narratives that do engage with these issues are marginalised by the power of the dominant narratives, and do not appear to be shaping proposed solutions. Third, as there are suggestions that increased engagement of Indigenous ... Thesis Arctic Arctic Climate change inuit White Rose eTheses Online (Universities Leeds, Sheffield, York) Arctic |
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Disasters are the outcome of social, political, and economic conditions and processes, particularly in the context of climate change. However, dominant narratives of climate change and health persistently frame climate change as an external threat and driver of harm. This obscures the root causes of disaster, such as inequity, colonialism, and poor governance. There are increasing calls to shift dominant narratives on climate change to encompass the root causes of disaster, and interest in the re-telling of climate change and health narratives from Indigenous perspectives. This thesis critically analyses the root causes of disaster for Inuit in Arctic North America (a region experiencing rapid climatic change), the ways that these are addressed in narratives about climate change and health, and how these narratives are constructed. Specifically, it focuses on the ongoing disruption of time spent on the land, which is reported to impact the physical and emotional health of Inuit as a ‘creeping disaster’, and which has been linked by some to climate change. First, based on the ‘forensic investigations of disaster’ approach, the literature is systematically reviewed, using qualitative causal analysis, to identify the root causes of constrained mobility for Inuit in Arctic North America. It identifies barriers to time spent on the land, which are driven by processes of governance and inequality, as opposed to environmental hazards. Second, narrative analysis is used to unpack how Canadian government policy frames the problems, solutions, and responsibilities of health and climate change. Findings suggest that dominant narratives do not engage with the social determinants of health or root causes of disaster, and fail to propose solutions that address inequality, power-relations, or colonialism. Narratives that do engage with these issues are marginalised by the power of the dominant narratives, and do not appear to be shaping proposed solutions. Third, as there are suggestions that increased engagement of Indigenous ... |
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