[ecrea] Popular Culture and Environmental Politics

>10th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference (NESS 2011)
>Power landscapes ­ histories and futures
>14-16 June 2011 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University
>
>www.stockholmresilience.su.se/ness2011
>
>We invite researchers from a range of different 
>disciplines within the social sciences and 
>humanities to share ideas and experiences from 
>research on the NESS 2011 overall theme: Power 
>landscapes - histories and futures. This tenth 
>NESS conference is a collaborative effort 
>between Stockholm University, its Stockholm 
>Resilience Centre and Stockholm Environment Institute.
>
>
>Panel on Popular Culture and Environmental Politics
>
>Chairs: Sanna Inthorn (Media Studies, University 
>of East Anglia, (S.Inthorn /at/ uea.ac.uk)), Michele 
>Micheletti (Political Science, Stockholm 
>University, (Michele.micheletti /at/ statsvet.su.se))
>
>This panel invites scholars to critically 
>reflect on the role of popular culture in 
>representing and shaping the nature of 
>environmental politics. It welcomes, but is not 
>limited, to the following themes:
>
>- The representation of the human/nature 
>relationship in specific genres, such as 
>science-fiction, comedy, or documentary.
>
>- The role of popular culture for civic 
>participation, including the use of popular 
>culture by environmental activists, but also the 
>representation of the environmental 
>responsibility of citizens in popular culture.
>
>- The institutional forces shaping 
>representations of the environment in popular 
>culture, such as codes of practice, technology, and funding.
>
>- The social, cultural, textual, and 
>psychological conditions through which audiences 
>engage with, and attach meaning to 
>representations of the environment in popular culture.
>
>- The role of humour as compared to factual 
>knowledge and scientific expertise for environmental politics.
>
>
>Send your abstract to the relevant panel (via 
>(matilda.valman /at/ stockholmresilience.su.se)) before 1 February 2011.
>
>Registration will open mid February 2011. More 
>information on registration fees etc. will be 
>posted later this year on the home page.

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