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22. Narrating a climate changed future Camilla Asplund Ingemark1

1 Uppsala University/Campus Gotland, Visby, SWEDEN

In this paper, I propose to study a recurrent motif in texts and narratives on climate change: islands being submerged into the sea. Drawing on both vernacular texts and various forms of media content, I trace the emergence of this motif as one of a handful iconic images we commonly use to represent and visualise climate change.

argue that we need to take several aspects into account, apart from the real threats to change with Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (2006), and how the political activities power of this image of drowning islands hinges on some fundamental Western cultural notions, such as the ”islandness” of islands – their remoteness, insularity, archaism and isolation (Ronström 2016) – which are important ingredients in their idealisation as paradises to long for. The fact that they are tropical islands inserts them into a touristic frame of reference, as places we dream of. Finally, the image of sunken islands has a powerful template in the myth of Atlantis, a mythical connection that is sometimes explicitly articulated.

in old houses

22. Narrating a climate changed future Sigrun Hanna Thorgrimsdottir1

1 University of Gothenburg

Each day we make multiple choices about what to eat or wear and where and how to live. Everyday practices such as our ways of inhabiting are “sensual and ethical responses to a world that makes its own demands on us” (Highmore, 2010: 12). This paper is part of an on-going phd research that centres on homemakers’ active

engage-ment in the production of their tomorrow by maintaining and restoring old houses from the perspective of critical heritage and crafts. The aim is to explore how the aesthetical appreciation for old houses, ‘pastness’ and quality can produce new perspective on larger issues, such as climate change, and produce other ways of living in the present and our tomorrow.

Many homeowners share their lives, ideals and everyday activities and homes online.

The Internet has become part of everyday life, it enables sharing of ideas, values and aesthetics and promotes visual expression. I will explore the possibilities of using this material and conducting a “netnography” (Kozinets, 2015). Part of the empirical mate-rial consists of blogs about ethical, sustainable and non-conformist living in old houses.

This can be considered a form of storytelling where an ethical stance towards things and the world we live in is central. It can also be thought of as quite activism with the aim to inspire and encourage a more ethical lifestyle. The bloggers in question are ‘rad-ical homemakers’ who tell stories of a sustainable life on a threatened earth entangled with the materiality of an old house.

22. Narrating a climate changed future Marit Ruge Bjærke1

1 Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

In this paper, I investigate how the Norwegian mass media use animal ex-amples to make a connection between loss of biodiversity and climate change in texts on biodiversity loss. The increasing pace of loss of biodiversity is considered by UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) to be one of the major environmental threats in the world today. Some believe we are in the midst of an ongoing mass extinc-tion.

Several authors have shown that during the 1990s and 2000s, climate change was medi-ated through images and stories of biodiversity and biodiversity loss. However, during recent years, climate change as an environmental threat seems to have become less politically contested in Norway than loss of biodiversity. Thus, loss of biodiversity is now narrated as climate change, instead of the other way around.

ened species in Norway. The list comprises more than 4 000 species, most of which are threatened by changes in land use. Only a few of these species become examples in the media texts. I argue that the animal examples and the stories they represent, are places where climate change enter the mass media texts on biodiversity, thus making loss of biodiversity a story of climate change.

22. Narrating a climate changed future Lone Ree Milkær1

1 Universitetet i Bergen, Institut for arkæologi, historie, kultur- og religionsvitenskap

Glocalized narratives of Transition

The Transition Network Movement is the text book example of a glocalized phenome-non, a local answer to a global challenge: How do we build resilient local societies for a post peak oil climate changed future? It is also one of the most successful coherent thousand initiatives in 25 countries (almost) worldwide. In the movement narratives is used explicitly to promote the transition agenda, which primarily is the need for a so-cietal transition originating in a local (re)transformation from surburbia to cosy village community. In the process of imagining this transitioned present, conceptions of the

In this paper I will attempt to outline the narrative frames of a glocalization process.

In what way does narrative schemes bind the global process of climate change to local Transition narrative is especially present in the Bærekraftige Liv initiatives which is primarily focused on resilient neighbourhoods in cities, but also includes businesses, urban farming and creating meeting places for different groups, such as refugees or

-and climate change resilience to community, family -and the creation of meaning in everyday life.

Queer History Matters

Tone Hellesund1

1 University of Bergen

In a time where many countries actively try to erase traces of queer lives from their national histories, it seems crucial that the Nordic countries actively docu-ment and disseminate the complex histories of various genders, and sexualities in our cultures throughout time. Since histories of same sex love and sex traditionally also have been excluded from Nordic archives, and certainly not been actively collected until recently, we also know far too little about what love and desire between women has meant, how it has been practiced, which identities have been built, and what cul-tures have been constructed around this, in our part of the world. This Nordic panel will focus on the lived lives of lesbians after the development of a lesbian/gay liberation movement in the 1950s.

There is a wealth of theoretical and methodological questions to be raised when cul-turally exploring sexualities of the past. In this panel we will raise some of them. The panel will focus on empirical work on lesbian history in the Nordic countries, using