Community Digital Storytelling for Locally Led Adaptation: Practice, opportunities and challenges

Article / Journal

Author(s) / editor(s):
Angelos Theocharis

Year: 2026

Keywords: community digital storytelling, locally led adaptation, Indigenous knowledge
Language(s): English

Abstract:
This article explores Community Digital Storytelling (CDST) as a participatory, decolonising method for Locally Led Adaptation, co-creating short films with Indigenous communities in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to document climate impacts and adaptation. Combining oral traditions, Indigenous methodologies, and smartphone filmmaking, CDST creates reflexive, intergenerational spaces that expose structural vulnerabilities, center community agency, and reorient climate adaptation towards social justice and the sovereignty of local knowledge, while also acknowledging ethical and structural challenges to long-term impact.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104359

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