[ecrea] Climate Change Network Call for Papers MeCCSA 2018

For the upcoming MeCCSA 2018 conference (London South Bank University, 
10-12 January 2018, http://www.meccsa2018.org), the MeCCSA Climate 
Change Network is inviting the submission of abstracts for themed panels 
on the following two topics:

'Creative climate activism – New mediations on climate 
change/human-animal engagements'

Creative and visual methods of communication have long been used in 
climate and environmental activism to engage and agitate. Yet what 
opportunities and challenges do new visual media technologies such as VR 
offer for more immersive and embodied forms of engaging? How are such 
technologies and other creative practices helping reconfigure 
human-animal and climate change engagement/activism in more affective 
and effective ways? This panel invites papers that explore a range of 
creative media, visual and educational practices, to explore questions 
of agency, activism, subjectivity and affect in the context of new and 
creative mediations with climate change and the Anthropocene.
'Climate change dissent in the post-truth era  – Implications for agency 
and engagement'

This panel will explore questions about the evolving nature of climate 
change denial – particularly in the ‘post-truth’ and ‘post-expert’ 
arenas. We invite papers that explore media iterations and cultural 
performances of climate change denial, and how these intersect with 
institutional power and discourses of ‘elitism’ vs. ‘the ordinary’, 
social and economic exclusion, and audience affect. We invite papers 
that appraise the success of certain ‘counter-scientific narratives’ of 
the environment, and also papers that explore how climate dissent and 
denial are being (creatively) contested.

Submission details
Each panel will be comprised of 3-4 papers. Abstracts should be 15-200 
words long. Deadline for submission is Monday 11 September, sent to 
Julie Doyle ((j.doyle /at/ brighton.ac.uk)).
On the basis of the abstracts we receive, we will co-ordinate panels and 
let authors know by 15 September if you have been included in the panel 
submission. This will allow time for us to submit the panels for the 
MeCCSA deadline on 18 September. For those abstracts not included in the 
final panel submissions, this means that you will still be able to 
submit your abstract to the general conference call for papers.


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