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Making climate change public? A dramaturgically inspired case-study of learning through transition management

Written by Katrien Van Poeck, Gert Goeminne.
Related to Sustainable Cities, Sustainability Education.

This article reports on a case study of a ‘transition arena’ established by an urban government in order to realise a climate neutral city through transition management. We study this case as a non-formal learning setting in which educational and political processes are intertwined. We draw on Noortje Marres’ conceptual distinction between ‘privatisating’ and ‘public-ising’ forms of issue formation and use a dramaturgical analytical framework that allows us to grasp how the design of a setting shapes and transforms not only the issue at stake but also the public involved in it. The development of a climate literate public, we argue, cannot be limited to learning predefined answers but should rather enable people to think critically in relation to taken-for-granted norms by opening-up democratic spaces where people can discuss and discover options through the exploration, evaluation, and critique of emerging ideas and the creative contribution to their development.

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Van Poeck, K., Vandenabeele, J. and Goeminne, G. (2017) ‘Making climate change public? A dramaturgically inspired case-study of learning through transition management’, International Journal of Global Warming, Vol. 12, Nos. 3/4, pp.366–385.

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