Power of partnership conference: Presentation: Everyday lives and environmental change
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Power of partnership conference: Presentation: Everyday lives and environmental change
- 1. Everyday Lives and Environmental Change Conceptual framework: The everyday Case studies: Three islands in the Maldives Methods: Participatory photography Impact: Conceptual and capacity building
- 3. Rubbish, debris and waste
- 4. Fishing: Living from the sea
- 5. Visual Stories of Everyday Change Photography workshops and exhibitions Conceptual impact: - The ‘everyday’ - What ‘islanders’ value - International perceptions Capacity development - Expression and skills development via photography - RA and workshop trainers - ENDEVOR, UNDP, Women’s committees
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- What our project is about – how people’s day to day lives intersect with environmental change in the Maldives Particularly interested in how day-to-day activities impact on the environment and also how people resist or accommodate environmental change via their daily habits and routines Our conceptual framework is the ‘everyday’ – draws from geography, sociology, development studies – limited application to date in relation to studies of environmental change Maldives focus – country known for international tourism but facing a series of economic, social, cultural and environmental challenges Maldives is an archipelago – 1200 islands, of which about 200 are inhabited – we worked on three islands We used a number of different methods – interviews, go-along, participatory photography – I will focus on the latter in this presentation This involved a number of workshops on the case study islands The participatory photography has led to both conceptual impact and capacity building impact In the next three slides I want to highlight some of the project findings – using the islanders’ photos – saying what the islanders wanted to show in the photos I will the summarise the impact at the end
- People wanted to highlight: the coast is always moving and island boundaries are not fixed 1. There is a lot of island expansion taking place through land reclamation – people wanted to show that this is important as there are major space limitations for housing 2. In some areas there are big problems with coastal erosion – people are improvising, building their own sea defences – and trying to accommodate tourism in as well
- People wanted to highlight: waste is a growing problem but there are also local-led and national efforts underway to tackle it 1. As the numbers of tourists have increased, and more and more goods are appearing on the islands, then so the waste problem has got worse 2. People are trying to tackle this problem on a daily basis – there is a combination of the old and the new in the ways that people do this
- People wanted to highlight: their traditional activities are changing 1. Fishing is an important way of life – even though there are fewer people fishing now due to more people seeking work in tourism 2. Fishing in Maldivian society (and elsewhere!) is often associated with men – but this women wanted to show that women also fish regularly – this is someone teaching her son how to fish from the harbour quay
- Conceptual impact New ways of thinking: The significance of conceptualising the everyday. That it is in the every day that we can see what is important to people, how they embody practices and how these change, how they understand and respond to changes in their environment and how it has also illuminated how its not just peoples every day practices but also how the environment changes every day Highlighting islander’s lives and what islanders value on a day to day basis; exhibition in Male and taking some local photographers to speak about their photos at exhibition launch; overcoming island/male divide Dissemination activities: taking exhibition to Manchester Museum: climate change is a problem but there is also a range of environmental issues that people are facing in their everyday lives Capacity development Local people – their perspective valued and expressing themselves through photography Attended workshop and learning about something new (photography and taking photos on a mobile) Capacity development for trainers as they hadn't done anything like this before For ENDEVOR and RA in new methods of research; involvement in impact through selecting photos for exhibition UNDP collaborating on exhibition; women’s committees