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I presented some preliminary research findings abount Scottish Environmental Community Groups at the SCCS board meeting. This is an amazing group, and it has been a privilege to be a part of the board for the past two years. You can view the slides for my presentation here: https://jeremykidwell.info/files/presentations/presentation_05042018_sccs.html I presented some preliminary research findings abount Scottish Environmental Community Groups at the SCCS board meeting. This is an amazing group, and it has been a privilege to be a part of the board for the past two years. You can view the slides for my presentation here: https://jeremykidwell.info/files/presentations/presentation_20180605_sccs/presentation_20180605_sccs.html

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# The *Scottish Communities Report*
## Jeremy Kidwell
### University of Birmingham
5 June 2018
Stop Climate Chaos Board Meeting
.footnote[[j.kidwell@bham.ac.uk](mailto:j.kidwell@bham.ac.uk) [@kidwellj](https://twitter.com/kidwellj)]
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4 key questions:
- What are community groups in Scotland?
- How do they contribute to climate action?
- What should we know about them?
- How can we improve engagement between national networks like SCCS and community groups?
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### Community Groups in Scotland
- Development Trusts Assoc. Scotland
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### Community Groups in Scotland
- Development Trusts Assoc. Scotland
- Community Land Groups
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### Community Groups in Scotland
- Development Trusts Assoc. Scotland
- Community Land Groups
- Scottish Communities Climate Action Network
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### Community Groups in Scotland
- Development Trusts Assoc. Scotland
- Community Land Groups
- Scottish Communities Climate Action Network
- City Farms & Gardens
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### Community Groups in Scotland
- Development Trusts Assoc. Scotland (263)
- Community Land Groups (69)
- .red[Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (95)]
- City Farms & Gardens (92)
- .red[Eco-Congregations (431)]
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There are four different types of community environmental group:
- The **.red[lone voices]**: a single person working in the midst of either indifference or hostility in the wider community.
- The **.red[local heroes]**: as above but with sanction and/or indirect support by the wider community.
- **.red[Small but active]**: a small and generally self-contained group of 3-12 persons.
- Large with differential involvements (**.red[LDI]**): many people with varying levels of participation.
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The local work of community groups is often invisible from a National perspective.
So what role do these groups play?
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# 1. Niche & Experimentation
.right-column[Specific policy interventions can be helped by a "proof of concept"
Smaller community groups can help to form a "niche" which can serve as laboratories for testing out new ideas.red[*]]
.footnote[.red[*] For more on this, check out: René Kemp, Johan Schot & Remco Hoogma, 1998. "[Regime shifts to sustainability through processes of niche formation: the approach of strategic niche management](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09537329808524310)." Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 175–198. For an overview of research into sustainability transitions see: Jochen Markard, Rob Raven & Bernhard Truffer, 2012. ["Sustainability transitions: an emerging field of research and its prospects"](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004873331200056X). Res. Policy 41 (6), 955–967.]
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# 2. Up-scaling
Community groups often form ad-hoc regional/national networks.
On the level of these "leaner" networks, information can be disseminated more efficiently and experiments may be multipled.
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# 3. Formation of community "values"
Environmental values are often cultivated and deployed through practices on a local level.
Community groups enable persons to express environmental work and advocacy through (and not in spite of) their personal values.
Similarly, community groups can often form the context where environmental transitions are "materialised," that is, embedded in concrete changes to local infrastructure.
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# 4. Consolidating opinion
More than serving as the sum of the individuals who are involved, community groups can provide a safe supportive space where convictions can be transformed into action.
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**Question 2**: What do we need to know about community environmental groups?
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# 1. Groups Overlap!
In some cases, a group will connect with a range of different networks, setting up a Development Trust for the sake of a funding application and a transition group for another project.
Similarly, individual members of these groups may participate in a whole range of activities, performing different eco-identities in each context.
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# 2. Issues are not the driver
Whereas for national networks and campaigning organisations, "action" and "issues" can often serve as the main driver.
In contrast, with community groups, the opposite is often the case.
Groups are driven by community formation and support, and issues come afterwards..red[*]
.footnote[.red[*] For more on this form my research, check out the forthcoming article: "Christian climate care: Slow change, modesty, and eco-theo-citizenship", coming out later in 2018.
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# 3. Local groups aren't always "local"
In workshops we've conducted, we have found that these groups can often contain a wide mix: including people who have resided for multiple generations in a community to foreign nationals who have been resident in Britain for only a few years.
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# 4. Local groups are often "lean"
Resourcing is extremely scarce. Though some groups are successful at securing lottery funding or a climate challenge fund grant, far more often groups work with minimal resourcing. This means there isn't any formal staff, and their activities are outside working hours, and activities will rely on volunteered expertise.
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# 5. Local groups work hard
Many of the volunteers involved in these groups are tremendously hard working people, putting in hundreds of pro bon hours each year. Small successes and public attention can provide a major boost. Similarly, setbacks can often dampen work for long durations.
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Quick review:
- Community groups provide a "niche" for experimentation
- Their work can often provide the basis for up-scaling larger sustainability transitions
- Local groups can help galvanise action by connecting environmental concerns with values
- More than the sum of their individual members, local groups can help to multiply enthusiasm and enable action
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Quick review (part 2):
- Group memberships overlap, participants often have multiple "environmental identities"
- Groups can tend to be focussed on community building over "issues"
- Local groups aren't always comprised of "locals"
- Local groups usually have no budget or resources, relying on volunteers.
- They work really hard but their work can be precarious. Small resources / encouragement can provide an outside effect. Similarly, for setbacks.
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**Question 3**: How can we work more effectively with community groups?
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# Idea 1: Use social media
Talk about usage patterns.
Engage on the level of local values; the need for user engagement is not satiated by "messaging", especially with religious groups.
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# Idea 2: Targetted communications make a difference
Consider sub-setting groups.
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# Idea 3: Build in reciprocity
Community groups can have tremendous impact within a small space and have access to social networks which are unknown to major NGOs.
We're often used to the "direct" appraoch to the public, but can we find ways to treat community groups as intermediaries?
There is tremendous potential for policy co-creation and co-research?
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# Idea 4: Consider enabling projects outside the central belt
- Support community anchors as "beacon" projects; invest in established projects to leverage as support agents for new projects
## Calibrate expectations of community-level groups to match SME investment expectations
- Expect failure (Startup failure rate > 90%). Can we fund blue-sky ambitious projects?
- Compare time to ROI for SMB; adjust funding horizons for project maturation and delivery
- Deliverable should be customer focussed ("climate justice" local services, etc.) not investor focussed ("carbon metrics")
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# What is possible in the digital humanities?
## (re)inaugural Workshop
### 15.06.002018
College of Arts & Law - Digital Humanities Forum
University of Birmingham
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Welcome!
Introduce yourself:
- Name
- Department
- What you're hoping to get out of the day
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### What is the point of the CAL DH Forum?
Given the professional “risks” involved in taking on digital projects and research methodologies, and the commensurate need to be pragmatic, tactical, and collaborative, we hope that the CAL DH Forum can help UOB academic staff to:
1. **identify clusters** within digital research methods and technologies in use at the University of Birmingham
1. produce **more coherent and successful requests for funding** and **internal resourcing** on DH projects
1. **share ideas** and new technology, pool expertise, and help to make projects more sustainable
1. consolidate the **profile** of DH at Bham
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What is the point of this event today?
- To see what kinds of digital humanities scholars @ UOB are practicing
- Strengthen the network
- Welcome new staff to the forum
- Start a longer process of collaborative decision making (==> follow-up workshop TBA for Fall 2018)
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## Structure for the event:
12:30-13:00 - Lunch
*Inhale*
13:00-13:15 - Welcome and introductions
- 13:15-13:30 - Provocation 1: **Social** Dh Research (Jack Grieve) +Discussion (15 Mins)
- 13:45-14:00 - Provocation 2: **Hacking** Dh Research (Andrew Edmondson) +Discussion (15 Mins)
- 14:15-14:30 - Provocation 3: **Spatial** Dh Research (Jeremy Kidwell) +Discussion (15 Mins)
- 14:45-15:00 - Provocation 4: **Textual** Dh Research (Alba Fedeli) +Discussion (15 Mins)
*Exhale*
- 15:15-15:45 - Networking coffee/tea
- 15:45-16:45 - Open Space Technology: 60 minutes
- Wrap up: group presentations
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## **Social** Dh Research (Jack Grieve)
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## **Hacking** DH Research (Andrew Edmondson)
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## **Spatial** DH Research (Jeremy Kidwell)
“Prophecy now involves a geographical rather than a historical projection; it is space and not time that hides consequences from us. To prophesy today it is only necessary to know men [and women] as they are throughout the world in all their inequality.”
–John Berger cited in Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies
online: https://jeremykidwell.info/files/presentations/presentation_06142018_dh-forum.html#8
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I'm an environmental philosopher and eco-theologian
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### current research concern:
surfacing the eco-dynamics at work with activists / within communities + the spiritual dimensions that may exist within both.
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### in my toolbox?
- geohumanities
- participatory ethnography / GIS
- storytelling
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how does geo + humanities work?
(some examples)
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1. odyssey.js
for: research dissemination
example: (http://bl.ocks.org/jonathanlurie/0b8785bc83b56693c089)
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2. ushahidi
for: crowdsourcing data collection
example: https://syriatracker.crowdmap.com/?full=1
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3. Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond: American Panorama
https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama
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4. cartodb
for: dissemination, co-research workshops, data repository
example: (http://carto.mapping.community)
(bit.ly/dtas-map-may18)
(bit.ly/arocha_map5)
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want to see more?
geohumanities SIG is great - http://geohumanities.org
also check out: http://dirtdirectory.org/categories/mapping
tba: hacker within "geospatial"
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**Textual** DH Research (Alba Fedeli)
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Coffee!
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# Open Space Technology
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## Part 1. Opening Circle
(discuss ground rules, roles, generate ad hoc agenda)
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## Open Space Technology Principles:
- Whoever comes are the right people
- Whenever it starts is the right time ("spirit and creativity do not run on the clock"!)
- Wherever it is, is the right place
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have (be prepared to be surprised!)
- When it's over, it's over... (well, sort of).
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## The "law" of open space
"If at any time during our time together you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, use your two feet, go someplace else.""
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# Roles
- facilitator
- hosts
- bees
- butterflies
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# Part 2. "Hosted" Discussion Sessions around tables
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# Part 3. Closing Circle
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