Date/Time
Date(s) - Wed 11 November
9:00
Rangahau Rising webinar series
The words we use to talk about change shape what change becomes possible. In this webinar, Dr Franca Buelow shares research from her Bioprotection Aotearoa postdoctoral fellowship on how media, government, farm advisors, and researchers frame agricultural change, climate adaptation, and resilience in Aotearoa New Zealand. She used natural language processing to analyse several million words of text. The results show where these groups share concerns but use different language, and how media coverage of Cyclone Gabrielle focused on response rather than long-term recovery. The talk closes by considering what these findings mean for communicating bioprotection across communities.
About the presenter
Dr Franca Buelow (Lincoln University, Tranche 1) is a political scientist studying governance in global value chains, with a focus on sustainability regulation, corporate due diligence, and transnational governance architectures. As Postdoctoral Fellow at Bioprotection Aotearoa, Franca investigated interdisciplinary approaches to climate adaptation and systemic change in Aotearoa New Zealand.