Mrill Ingram Livres

Using a geographer's perspective, this book examines the implications of socially and ecologically isolated spaces. It highlights the role of artists in revealing the hidden costs of these disconnected environments and emphasizes the potential for fostering new relationships with our surroundings. Through this exploration, it challenges conventional understandings of space and advocates for a more interconnected approach to our environments.

Touring orphaned spaces -- Caring in orphaned space -- Gas station alchemy and cultural heritage in South Chicago -- Artist diplomacy on the Bronx River -- Water and other foreigners in Fargo, North Dakota -- Meaning-full space.

Theory and case studies demonstrate the analytic potential of mutually constitutive narrative networks in environmental governance.

The Power of Narrative provides fresh insight into the rhetorical and semantic properties on both sides of the climate change debate that preclude dialogue around climate science, and proposes a means for moving beyond ideological entrenchment through language mediation, further ethnographic study, and research-informed teaching.

This Element sketches a conceptual framework for the study of relationality and illustrates some of the promise of relational analysis using an extended case study. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.