Methodologies for Co-constructing Narratives Aimed at Understanding Resilience and Adaptation Processes of Urban Situated Nature

Alfo Puppo-Stuardo (2025)

Abstract

The phenomenon of unregulated urbanization is the central axis of social and ecological transformations to coexist with ecosystems worldwide. In Latin America, there is a challenge to understand these impacts from everyday life, as there are various initiatives and resistances when interaction with nature has been threatened. This document proposes Narrative Productions as a novel research tech nique to identify sociocultural valuations towards urban nature and thus know the thoughts and actions that are strained by the impacts of urbanization in a munici pality located in southern Chile. The chapter indicates the theoretical aspects of the research project to situate social and ecological problems of urbanization in everyday life; describes the origin and procedure of the Narrative Productions technique and presents the main results to understand the sociocultural valuations of nature situ ated in the municipality of Chiguayante, which in this case express the loss of native forests due to business logics that promote the growth of the city under particular interests and the need of the inhabitants to recover ancestral wisdom related to food supply.

Keywords: Sociocultural valuations · Narrative productions · Situated urban political ecology · Situated urban nature

Cómo citar: Puppo-Stuardo, A. (2025). Methodologies for Co-constructing Narratives Aimed at Understanding Resilience and Adaptation Processes of Urban Situated Nature. Vicuña, M., Giorgi, E. (eds). Intersections. SPRINGER Geography, (pp.453 - 468)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76402-8_29