Leveraging Affect in the Wake of Disaster: From "Hell or High Water" to Resilient Calgary
| dc.contributor.author | Inch, Jenna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-16T17:28:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-16T17:28:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Affect and emotions are typically viewed as irrelevant factors within policymaking, with policy practitioners and theorists favouring the more positivist "rational model" of policymaking. However, in 2019, the City of Calgary released its Resilient Calgary strategy - an urban climate resilience strategy containing various affective remarks surrounding the 2013 Southern Alberta flood. Thus, the following questions were asked with the goal of bridging the gap between the affective and the political: what climate-derived affects were felt by Calgarians in the aftermath of the 2013 Southern Alberta flood, and to what extent were these climate-derived affects transposed into the City of Calgary’s Resilient Calgary strategy? By conducting a thematic analysis of various media sources and the Resilient Calgary strategy, and by employing a deductive coding approach, four key findings came to the fore. First, affect is profoundly political; second, affective language can be leveraged to fulfil political objectives within particularly emotionally-charged contexts; third, affect can become embedded within climate-oriented policymaking, including urban climate resilience strategies, and; lastly, though affect can be employed for the betterment of the planet, affect can also be wielded within policy to maintain the status quo, effectively hindering or discouraging the transformative policymaking necessary to overcome climate change. | |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Undergraduate | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/16158 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Victoria | |
| dc.subject | resilience | |
| dc.subject | climate change | |
| dc.subject | flood | |
| dc.subject | affect | |
| dc.subject | emotion | |
| dc.subject | urban governance | |
| dc.title | Leveraging Affect in the Wake of Disaster: From "Hell or High Water" to Resilient Calgary | |
| dc.type | Poster |