Practicing Care Through Creative and Collaborative Climate Communication

Abstract

This paper offers a critical reflection upon the reimagining of environmental and climate communication as a discipline of care, through the practices of creative and collaborative climate communication. Drawing upon my experiences of working on creative climate communication projects with young people in the UK and Europe, I explore how collaborative practice can foreground care as a constitutive dimension of our discipline(s) through its focus upon relationality, interconnectedness, and collectivity. A focus upon care as an ethic of enquiry and mode of practice can also reorient the constitutive purpose of our discipline(s), helping us to productively question the individual and collective work we do, how we undertake this work and with whom, and whose voices and perspectives we seek and thus prioritize.