Mangrove Stories of Large Ocean State Environmental Thrutopia

School of Education, University of Bristol

Join us for a ESSRG-hosted Bristol Conversations seminar with Terra Sprague, Narrative Inquirer and Lecturer from the University of Bristol

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This event is part of the School of Education's <a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/bristol-conversations-in-education-research-seminar-series/" title="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/bristol-conversations-in-education-research-seminar-series/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bristol Conversations in Education research seminar series</a>. These seminars are free and open to the public.Hosted by the<a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/sites/smallstates/" title="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/sites/smallstates/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Education in Small States Research Group (ESSRG)</a>(affiliated with <a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/centres-networks/centre-for-comparative-and-international-research-in-education-cire/" title="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/centres-networks/centre-for-comparative-and-international-research-in-education-cire/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE)</a>)Speaker: Terra Sprague (Narrative Inquirer and Lecturer, University of Bristol, School of Education)Chair: Michael Crossley (Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Education, University of Bristol, School of Education)What do you do when a narrative inquiry generates more conversations and stories than can be included in a single research output? You craft them into an academic novella. Come be transported to mangrove forests in the islands of the Pacific, Caribbean and Indian Ocean and hear stories of environmental Thrutopia.During the writing of her thesis on environmental resilience in Large Ocean States, many stories of living at the sharp end of climate change were left unshared. Extending the use of the Narrative Inquiry methodology used in her doctoral work, Terra has since been recrafting her doctoral thesis into a novel manuscript, sharing stories from her fieldwork which have not been previously published.In this session, Terra will share new vignettes and conversations from the Mangrove forests of Fiji, St Lucia and Mauritius. She will discuss the journey of shifting from academic to non-fiction writing and publishing, and her exploration of the genres Thrutopia and academic novella.