[Commlist] CFP - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2023 - The Screen Industries Future: Justice, Climate Change and Sustainability

Please find below our call for papers for the RGS-IBG Annual 
International Conference in London in August 2023.


RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023


Call for papers


The Screen Industries Future: Justice, Climate Change and Sustainability


Session organisers: Jon Swords and Nina Willment (University of York), 
Alexandra Dales (York St John University) and Rory Padfield (University 
of Leeds).


Despite on-screen hits such as Planet Earth, Seven Worlds One Planet, 
Don’t Look Up and Cowspiracy, off-screen the film and TV industries' 
engagement with environmental issues has been lacklustre until 
relatively recently. This is unsurprising given political messaging 
about the creative industries more broadly has been growth-focused ever 
since the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Support first 
defined the sector in the 1990s. When stakeholders make the case for new 
policy interventions, additional funding, new support schemes or tax 
incentives they are usually accompanied by claims about the economic 
contribution of the creative sector, its employment levels and rates of 
growth are among the first things mentioned. But if the creative 
industries are to seriously address climate change and other 
environmental issues, we need to think very differently about how 
creative products and services are produced, distributed and consumed. 
This session seeks to explore pathways beyond economic growth for the 
creative industries which seriously engage with issues of climate 
change, environmental justice, circular economies and understandings of 
sustainability on and off screen.


We welcome papers focused on the screen industries, and related creative 
sectors, which explore topics including, but not limited to:


  *

    The impact of changing technologies and production approaches

  *

    The effect of policy and regulatory interventions

  *

    Sustainability assessments of the screen industries, e.g. carbon and
    ecological footprint calculators

  *

    Challenges and opportunities associated with shifting toward
    circular economy structures for the creative sector

  *

    The role of the creative sector in closing the information and
    narrative deficit between society and sustainability and global
    challenge research

  *

    The impacts of screen tourism

  *

    The shift to remote and virtualised working practices


Please send us your abstracts of 250 words to (jon.swords /at/ york.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(jon.swords /at/ york.ac.uk)>and (a.dales /at/ yorksj.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(a.dales /at/ yorksj.ac.uk)>by Friday 24th March 2023.


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