1261 | 942 | Changing senses of place to navigate transformative approaches of uncertainties.

Human adaptive and transformative capacities to global environmental change heavily rely on attitudes and approaches towards the emergence of multiple uncertainties. Building on Bateson’s levels of learning, this work proposes three orders of changes to address uncertainty. From incremental changes to reduce the risk of not knowing (doing things better), to critically redefining how we handle uncertainty through democratic means (doing better things) to celebrate uncertainty as a way out from dominant paradigm (seeing things differently). The latter prioritizes experiential and diverse ways of knowing, normative commitments, values and affects which are examined in this study through the lenses of senses of place. The case study analyses contested place meanings associated with non-urbanized metropolitan areas in the Llobregat delta. A relational approach of senses of place is used to evaluate how a given diversity of contested place meanings associated with the same place (i.e., images) give rise to different visions about signs of social and environmental changes shaping responsive collective agency following two major disruptive events. This approach recognizes the complex and dynamic ways in which people and places interact and seeks to understand implications for place-based transformative capacities.

Anna Marín-Puig
Departament de geografia. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

ID Abstract: 942

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