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The climate movement
School strikes: ‘people power’ and cultural power in action
School strike imagery: visible, emotionally-compelling. . .
The narrative power of #Schoolstrike4climate
Greta Thunberg: narrative & iconic power
The Pacific Climate Warriors’ blockade
Canoes vs coal ships – blockading Newcastle Harbour
The ‘cascade’ of events generated by the Pacific Warriors’ blockade
Building and energising a movement in the Pacific
A platform for communication
Redefining climate politics—
from …./ to….
The Pacific Warriors in the media
What does this kind of ‘symbolic action’ really achieve?
Political theatre: two case studies
‘Accept The Gift’: Christmas solar panels for the government
Maldives Underwater Cabinet
Stop Adani
Movements of the past
The US Civil Rights movement
The civil rights movement and the climate movement
The Civil Rights Movement: stories, images and drama
Cultural power in action: the case of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches
Cultural power, ‘people power’ – or both? The case of the 1960s US Civil Rights Movement
Cultural power as one form of ’real’ power – more on the debate between Morris and Alexander
Gandhi, Indian independence and Satyagraha
Gandhi and the 1930 Salt March
Nehru on why Gandhi mattered
Forms of cultural power in the anti-apartheid movement
How images defined apartheid
Political communication, government & cultural power
Trump wins the US Presidency – notes on political communication, racism, identity & cultural power
Stories, images, and the outcome of Australia’s 2019 election
The Rudd-Gillard-Abbott era: how opponents of climate action used cultural power to win
Imagery, identification, & imagination: Stuart Hall on Thatcher’s 1987 victory
Power
Combining ‘people power’ and cultural power
Analysing power: 12 dimensions and factors
12 dimensions of power & social movements
Movements use stories and images “all the time” – so why focus on cultural power?
“but what does cultural power really achieve?”
Narrative
A powerful plot: “every scene must turn”
The debate about melodrama and ‘enemy narratives’
Genre shift: stories that fail & stories that work
The narrative power of #Schoolstrike4climate
Political theatre: two case studies
Narrative: some links and resources
Images
Images: making the issues visible, vivid, tangible. . .
Divestment – a movement where images matter
What makes images iconic?
Stop Adani
Stop Adani: whose images define the debate?
How imagery is ‘everywhere’ in the politics of Adani
“Making the movement move”
Key points and issues
Key points – in images and diagrams
How stories and images matter politically: some thoughts-in-progress
7 challenges for the climate movement
‘We have to make the world understand’
Cultural power & the rise of the far-right: some notes
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Case studies
The climate movement
School strikes: ‘people power’ and cultural power in action
School strike imagery: visible, emotionally-compelling. . .
The narrative power of #Schoolstrike4climate
Greta Thunberg: narrative & iconic power
The Pacific Climate Warriors’ blockade
Canoes vs coal ships – blockading Newcastle Harbour
The ‘cascade’ of events generated by the Pacific Warriors’ blockade
Building and energising a movement in the Pacific
A platform for communication
Redefining climate politics—
from …./ to….
The Pacific Warriors in the media
What does this kind of ‘symbolic action’ really achieve?
Political theatre: two case studies
‘Accept The Gift’: Christmas solar panels for the government
Maldives Underwater Cabinet
Stop Adani
Movements of the past
The US Civil Rights movement
The civil rights movement and the climate movement
The Civil Rights Movement: stories, images and drama
Cultural power in action: the case of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches
Cultural power, ‘people power’ – or both? The case of the 1960s US Civil Rights Movement
Cultural power as one form of ’real’ power – more on the debate between Morris and Alexander
Gandhi, Indian independence and Satyagraha
Gandhi and the 1930 Salt March
Nehru on why Gandhi mattered
Forms of cultural power in the anti-apartheid movement
How images defined apartheid
Political communication, government & cultural power
Trump wins the US Presidency – notes on political communication, racism, identity & cultural power
Stories, images, and the outcome of Australia’s 2019 election
The Rudd-Gillard-Abbott era: how opponents of climate action used cultural power to win
Imagery, identification, & imagination: Stuart Hall on Thatcher’s 1987 victory
Power
Combining ‘people power’ and cultural power
Analysing power: 12 dimensions and factors
12 dimensions of power & social movements
Movements use stories and images “all the time” – so why focus on cultural power?
“but what does cultural power really achieve?”
Narrative
A powerful plot: “every scene must turn”
The debate about melodrama and ‘enemy narratives’
Genre shift: stories that fail & stories that work
The narrative power of #Schoolstrike4climate
Political theatre: two case studies
Narrative: some links and resources
Images
Images: making the issues visible, vivid, tangible. . .
Divestment – a movement where images matter
What makes images iconic?
Stop Adani
Stop Adani: whose images define the debate?
How imagery is ‘everywhere’ in the politics of Adani
“Making the movement move”
Key points and issues
Key points – in images and diagrams
How stories and images matter politically: some thoughts-in-progress
7 challenges for the climate movement
‘We have to make the world understand’
Cultural power & the rise of the far-right: some notes
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Case Studies
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Case studies
The climate movement
Movements of the past
The US Civil Rights movement
Gandhi, Indian independence and Satyagraha
South Africa and apartheid
Political communication, government and cultural power
Trump wins the US Presidency – notes on political communication, racism, identity & cultural power
Stories, images, and the outcome of Australia’s 2019 election
The Rudd-Gillard-Abbott era: how opponents of climate action used cultural power to win
Imagery, identification, & imagination: Stuart Hall on Thatcher’s 1987 victory
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