{"id":3217,"date":"2017-10-11T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T10:48:49","slug":"rinella-cere-framing-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/rinella-cere-framing-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher Blog by Dr Rinella Cere on Shared Solidarities 3 – Framing Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rinella Cere<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0Reader in Media and Cultural Studies\u00a0in the\u00a0Computing and Communication Research Centre<\/a> (CCRC) within C3RI. Rinella\u2019s research interests include post-colonial theory and media cultures, theories of globalisation and Italian media culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this post\u00a0Rinella\u00a0reflects on Shared Solidarities 3 – Framing Catastrophe: a one-day\u00a0conference\u00a0convened by two networks of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) and hosted by\u00a0C3RI.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Shared Solidarities is now in its third year. This year MeCCSA<\/a>‘s Social Movement Network teamed up with the Climate Change Network to bring together community activists and academic researchers in what turned out to be a very successful and well attended conference. The title of the conference ‘Framing Catastrophe’ alludes to the urgency of tackling climate change, nuclear proliferation and armaments as well as to the way these issues are represented and circulated in the media.<\/p>\n

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Emeritus Professor Nigel Young<\/a>, founder of Peace Studies at Bradford University was the first keynote speaker. He set the tone for the day\u00a0with a cavalcade of visual images about war and peace in a paper entitled ‘Blocking out Catastrophe’.\u00a0Next Jill Angwood, Chris Rust and Celia Mather\u00a0representing\u00a0respectively SCRAP <\/a>(Sheffield Creative Action for Peace), STAG <\/a>(Sheffield Tree Action Groups) and SCA <\/a>(Sheffield Climate Alliance) led a session on local activism.\u00a0All three drew on their own activist experience in Sheffield and described how their campaigning and organisations brought results at local level.<\/p>\n

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\"Chris<\/p>\n

Former leader of the UK Green Party, Natalie Bennett<\/a>, joined us for\u00a0the afternoon session along\u00a0Hallam colleague, Mike Beaken<\/a>.\u00a0 Mike took us on a journey on how ‘linguistic strategies’ are adopted to mask the reality of nuclear weapons in order to ‘downplay their danger’.<\/p>\n

The third speaker in this session was the seasoned campaigner Lydia Merryl who is involved in both SERA <\/a>(Socialist Environment and Resources Association) and in WILPF <\/a>(Women\u2019s International League for Peace and Freedom). Merryl has attended The Paris Climate Change as well as the Moroccan Talks and presented us with a with the United Nations-sponsored educational short film. The film was made with young school children who made\u00a0a plea to the leaders attending the conferences to act for the future of ‘their’ world.<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor Steve McGiffen<\/a> of the American University in Paris, and longtime adviser and campaigner on environmental issues for the Europen Parliament, gave the closing keynote. \u00a0This\u00a0talk entitled ‘ANTHROPOCENE, CAPITALOCENE, CATASTROPHOCENE: The problem of incorporating an accurate assessment of the threats posed by climate change into an effective radical politics’\u00a0further underlined the Shared Solidarities themes. His discussion of recent theorisation about climate change, based on some of his previously published work, attempted to establish valuable links between the local and the global for effective radical politics.<\/p>\n

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Plans are now in place to have the proceedings of this enlightening day conference published as an edited collection entitled ‘Framing Catastrophe’. \u00a0Watch this space for further developments.<\/p>\n

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Please note: Views expressed are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of SHU, C3RI\u00a0or the C3RI Impact\u00a0Blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

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About the author Rinella Cere\u00a0is\u00a0Reader in Media and Cultural Studies\u00a0in the\u00a0Computing and Communication Research Centre (CCRC) within C3RI. Rinella\u2019s research interests include post-colonial theory and media cultures, theories of globalisation and Italian media culture. 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