Alison Neilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4879912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Neilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Neilson |
| SIGNATURE | NEILSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6457-2804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Were We Thinking? A Climate Fiction Beginning and Ending, Told Inside and Outside and Backward and Forward
We resonated with the idea that dreaming is important, and that climate fiction is a way of dreaming with environmental educators. A well of resistance lives in art collaborations around the world which harness the power of the collective to face terrible realities and twist, bend, and dance them into alternative hopeful pasts, presents and futures. Engaging with other people and more-than-human lives, through creative collaborations have led us …
Sensing the Ocean through the Exquisite Corpse ArtScience method
The current interconnected crises of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and lack of justice and equity suggest that existing mainstream actions are inadequate and that different approaches are needed. Using a participatory action research approach, we aimed to demonstrate the potential of the asynchronous group-based “Exquisite Corpse” art process to catalyze meaningful relationships within an interdisciplinary group of ocean ArtScience practi…
Expanding socioecological justice through photo narratives
This autoethnographical analysis explores collaborative attempts to expand normative narratives about fishing communities to serve socioecological justice and alternative socioecological futures for small-scale fishing communities. It challenges normative framing of environmental narratives and investigates how knowledge is pictured and viewed in a world of increasing ocean industrialisation. It explores issues of power within the realm of storyt…
A transdisciplinary co‐conceptualisation of marine identity
Challenge 10 of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) calls for the restoration of society's relationship with the ocean. Research suggests that the relationship people have with marine environments can influence their depth of engagement in marine citizenship action, and the important role for ‘marine identity’ in driving that action. Although identity is well‐researched, marine identity is a concept …
“Vamos fazer-nos ouvir”
Este estudo visa compreender a potencialidade de dispositivos participativos no ativismo de crianças, procurando perceber como problematizam e como intervêm em questões ambientais da floresta local. Envolveu, durante três meses consecutivos, 22 crianças com dez anos do 4.o ano do 1.o ciclo do ensino básico em momentos de participação, numa lógica de ação-reflexão. Com base numa abordagem de perfil comunitário, as crianças investigaram a floresta …
Covid-19 and the desire of children to return to nature
The global COVID-19 public health crisis has driven policies of lockdowns and social distancing that have had negative social and economic impacts, worsening inequalities and social exclusions, and mixed environmental impacts. This study engaged children from schools with diverse environmental pedagogies in online focus groups about nature and their experiences with nature during the pandemic. Participants expressed fear of the unknown virus, sad…
Civil participation between private and public spheres
This paper discusses civic participation with reference to fishing communities in the Azores archipelago, Portugal. We explore how concepts and political processes actively exclude people, and how researchers could dig deeper to find opportunities to build from diverse cultural practices of participation. Specifically, we describe examples of efforts towards participatory sustainable development as well as introduce a centuries-old highly partici…
In the Azores, looking for the regions of knowing
This multi-voice script highlights the process of five years of research with coastal fishing communities in the Azores islands of Portugal. Initially, we used photo elicitation and focus groups to invite people to speak about the sea and all the deep, complex and sometimes contradictory meanings that it may have. In later years, the researchers sought environmental justice within everyday processes, using deep ethnographic and autobiographicnarr…
In Response to a Call
This is an escape from individualism, competition, and transmissive education practices which are the norms within higher education conferences of the neoliberal university. It is built from the script of a video abstract submitted to a call for keynote presenters for an international congress. Using tricksters and poetic presentations, we offer an open work inviting readers to have fun and make meaning from our provocative attempts
In the Azores, looking for the regions of knowing
This multi-voice script highlights the process of five years of research with coastal fishing communities in the Azores islands of Portugal. Initially, we used photo elicitation and focus groups to invite people to speak about the sea and all the deep, complex and sometimes contradictory meanings that it may have. In later years, the researchers sought environmental justice within everyday processes, using deep ethnographic and autobiographicnarr…
Civil participation between private and public spheres
This paper discusses civic participation with reference to fishing communities in the Azores archipelago, Portugal. We explore how concepts and political processes actively exclude people, and how researchers could dig deeper to find opportunities to build from diverse cultural practices of participation. Specifically, we describe examples of efforts towards participatory sustainable development as well as introduce a centuries-old highly partici…
Civil participation between private and public spheres
This paper discusses civic participation with reference to fishing communities in the Azores archipelago, Portugal. We explore how concepts and political processes actively exclude people, and how researchers could dig deeper to find opportunities to build from diverse cultural practices of participation. Specifically, we describe examples of efforts towards participatory sustainable development as well as introduce a centuries-old highly partici…
In the Azores, looking for the regions of knowing
This multi-voice script highlights the process of five years of research with coastal fishing communities in the Azores islands of Portugal. Initially, we used photo elicitation and focus groups to invite people to speak about the sea and all the deep, complex and sometimes contradictory meanings that it may have. In later years, the researchers sought environmental justice within everyday processes, using deep ethnographic and autobiographicnarr…
In Response to a Call
This is an escape from individualism, competition, and transmissive education practices which are the norms within higher education conferences of the neoliberal university. It is built from the script of a video abstract submitted to a call for keynote presenters for an international congress. Using tricksters and poetic presentations, we offer an open work inviting readers to have fun and make meaning from our provocative attempts
Covid-19 and the desire of children to return to nature
The global COVID-19 public health crisis has driven policies of lockdowns and social distancing that have had negative social and economic impacts, worsening inequalities and social exclusions, and mixed environmental impacts. This study engaged children from schools with diverse environmental pedagogies in online focus groups about nature and their experiences with nature during the pandemic. Participants expressed fear of the unknown virus, sad…
“Vamos fazer-nos ouvir”
Este estudo visa compreender a potencialidade de dispositivos participativos no ativismo de crianças, procurando perceber como problematizam e como intervêm em questões ambientais da floresta local. Envolveu, durante três meses consecutivos, 22 crianças com dez anos do 4.o ano do 1.o ciclo do ensino básico em momentos de participação, numa lógica de ação-reflexão. Com base numa abordagem de perfil comunitário, as crianças investigaram a floresta …
A transdisciplinary co‐conceptualisation of marine identity
Challenge 10 of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) calls for the restoration of society's relationship with the ocean. Research suggests that the relationship people have with marine environments can influence their depth of engagement in marine citizenship action, and the important role for ‘marine identity’ in driving that action. Although identity is well‐researched, marine identity is a concept …
What Were We Thinking? A Climate Fiction Beginning and Ending, Told Inside and Outside and Backward and Forward
We resonated with the idea that dreaming is important, and that climate fiction is a way of dreaming with environmental educators. A well of resistance lives in art collaborations around the world which harness the power of the collective to face terrible realities and twist, bend, and dance them into alternative hopeful pasts, presents and futures. Engaging with other people and more-than-human lives, through creative collaborations have led us …
Sensing the Ocean through the Exquisite Corpse ArtScience method
The current interconnected crises of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and lack of justice and equity suggest that existing mainstream actions are inadequate and that different approaches are needed. Using a participatory action research approach, we aimed to demonstrate the potential of the asynchronous group-based “Exquisite Corpse” art process to catalyze meaningful relationships within an interdisciplinary group of ocean ArtScience practi…
Expanding socioecological justice through photo narratives
This autoethnographical analysis explores collaborative attempts to expand normative narratives about fishing communities to serve socioecological justice and alternative socioecological futures for small-scale fishing communities. It challenges normative framing of environmental narratives and investigates how knowledge is pictured and viewed in a world of increasing ocean industrialisation. It explores issues of power within the realm of storyt…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works) · Fishing (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)