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Recipes for Resilience: Engaging Caribbean Youth in Climate Action and Food Heritage through Stories and Song

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  • Nicole Plummer

    (Institute of Caribbean Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education, The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica)

  • Marisa Wilson

    (Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK)

  • Inna Yaneva-Toraman

    (Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS University of London, 551 Main Building, 10 Thornhaugh Street, London WCH 0XG, UK)

  • Charmaine McKenzie

    (Independent Researcher, 1E Daisy Avenue, Kingston 6, Jamaica)

  • Sylvia Mitchell

    (Medicinal Plant Research Group, The Biotechnology Centre, St. John’s Close, The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica)

  • Patricia Northover

    (Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), The University of the West Indies, (UWI), Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica)

  • Kate Crowley

    (Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, High School Yards, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ, UK)

  • Thera Edwards

    (Department of Geography and Geology, The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica)

  • Anthony Richards

    (Wild Caribbean, 31 Husbands Crescent, St. James BB23032, Barbados)

Abstract

This paper presents findings from the Recipes for Resilience project, an international, interdisciplinary collaboration between Caribbean and UK scholars of history, geography, anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, ethnobotany, and climate-risk studies, and the research partners, the Caribbean Youth Environment Network. The purpose of the project was to investigate how agrifood heritage may be mobilized in creative ways to engage Caribbean youth in climate action and justice. The project utilized arts and humanities methods, such as storytelling, songwriting, online games, and brief research-led talks, culminating in the co-created song: “Food and Resistance for Climate Resilience”. The results of the project provide evidence that climate action requires arts and humanities methods to appeal to youth, as opposed to purely fact-based or scientific forms of climate communication. We conclude that co-creative methods such as music and storytelling can inspire youth to engage in climate action, in this case through a (re)valuation culinary and agricultural heritage.

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  • Nicole Plummer & Marisa Wilson & Inna Yaneva-Toraman & Charmaine McKenzie & Sylvia Mitchell & Patricia Northover & Kate Crowley & Thera Edwards & Anthony Richards, 2022. "Recipes for Resilience: Engaging Caribbean Youth in Climate Action and Food Heritage through Stories and Song," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-19, July.
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