The purpose of the sub-project is to explore the interface between global media messages, local media production, and local discourses on SES transformations. The context for the case study on Lake Naivasha is shaped by long-standing national and international narratives on an African paradise under threat. The study combines several quantitative and qualitative methods and adopts an actor/arena approach to explore how people at the local level take up, but also rearrange and readapt these national and international representations so as to cope with their experiences of often radical social, economic and ecological change.
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