Event title:

EEI Colloquium Series: Wednesday 27 October 2021- 2.00-3-00pm - Online

Event details

Event details

Date:
Wednesday, 27th October 2021
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Campus:
Online
Categories:
  EEI Colloquium Series 2021  

Event description

Event description

Words and Waves: exploring the power of stories, community, and renewable energy in Orkney

 

Dr Rebecca Ford, Teaching Assistant, Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands

 

As the home of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Orkney has become a focus for an emerging Marine Renewable Energy sector. This has brought the local community into contact with individuals, organisations, and ideas from across the globe, and into dialogue with a range of local and global narratives about climate change, energy policy, economic development, environmental protection, and marine spatial planning.  

This seminar explores the shared narratives that have emerged from these 'ecologies of meaning making' and suggests why understanding the power of stories in the process of technology development is important to our future relationships with energy and environment, in Orkney and beyond. 

 

Biography

Rebecca has recently completed her PhD with the Institute for Northern Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands – her thesis is entitled “Words and Waves: ecological dialogism as an approach to discourse, community, and marine renewable energy in Orkney”.

Rebecca’s research is interdisciplinary and is grounded in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and his dialogical approach to language. From this Rebecca has developed ecological dialogism – an approach to understanding language and meaning making as an embodied process, enacted and extended within a physical and cultural environment. Rebecca has a particular interest in the role of narrative in shaping cultural identity in Orkney, and the relationship between texts and everyday discourse as part of ecologies of meaning making. Her work engages with the Environmental Humanities and feminist approaches to science and technology, energy, and environment.

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