scholarly journals Ecological Citizens with a Movie Camera: Communitarian and Agonistic Environmental Documentaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Hedemann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Visual Rhetoric ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Interpretive Research ◽  
An Inconvenient Truth ◽  
Ecological Citizenship ◽  
Movie Camera

Environmental documentaries attained wider public and academic attention, especially in the aftermath of Al Gore’s prominent documentary on climate change An Inconvenient Truth. Making environmental documentaries is a cinematic form of political advocacy. However, there is a lack of research on the broad range of such films from Germany. While earlier works tended to an accusatory style, newer environmental documentary seems to be more constructive and aiming at spreading information about feasible alternatives. This article pursues three objectives: first, to gain a deeper understanding of the shift from accusatory to constructive documentaries; second, to connect film studies to the political change-making role and therefore to theories of ecological citizenship; and third, to explore the question of what citizenship with a movie camera means. The accusatory and constructive style are associated with agonistic and communitarian ecological citizenship. A sample of two films from the German context, namely Leben ausser Kontrolle produced by Bertram Verhaag in 2004 and Voices of Transition produced by Nils Aguilar in 2012, is analyzed comparatively. The interpretive research method combines methods of studying audio-visual rhetoric with the framing approach from social movement studies.

Political Embeddedness and the Management of Emotions

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Blocq ◽  
Bert Klandermans ◽  
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Using Data

This article explores how variation in political embeddedness of social movement organi-zations (SMOs) influences the management of emotions. By variation in the political embed-dedness of SMOs, we mean variation in the strength and the number of ties between SMOs and the political establishment. By management of emotions, we mean the efforts of SMO leaders to evoke particular emotions among SMO members. Using data from protest surveys conducted at demonstrations regarding climate change in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2009, we find that protestors who are members of more politically embedded SMOs are generally less angry than protestors who are members of less politically embedded SMOs. The finding that this pattern is especially strong among SMO members who heard about the dem-onstration through an SMO confirms the assumed role of SMO leaders in the management of emotions.

scholarly journals An ‘inconvenient truth’? The problem of recognition of the political message – commentary to Huttunen and Albrecht

2021 ◽  
Vol 199 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Kyroglou
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
News Media ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
An Inconvenient Truth ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Political Message

  This commentary reflects on Huttunen and Albrecht’s exploration of the representations of young people’s environmental citizenship within the framing of the Fridays for Future (FFF) movement in the Finnish news media and on Twitter. In particular, it problematises the issue of the recognition of young people’s agency by their adult contemporaries, at a watershed moment for global environmental activism. It argues that although young people actively bring the climate change in the forefront of political discussion aiming to shape how environmental responsibility is being understood, the success of the movement will largely depend on the acknowledgement of their political message by its intended recipients; namely their adult contemporaries and politicians.    

scholarly journals APROPRIASI METAFORA FILM IKLAN MANDIRI SECURITAS

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Handriyo Topo ◽  
GR Lono Lastoro ◽  
SP Gustami
Keyword(s):  
Visual Rhetoric ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Visual Domain ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

<p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>            Film Iklan Mandiri Securitas  merupakan film iklan mengunakan  strategi retorika komunikasi visual empu keris sebagai pendekatan kreatifnya. Tema sebagai ide dasar penciptaaan film iklan Mandiri Securitas  berusaha memahamkan tentang usaha kerja keras untuk menghasilkan detil dari kerja empu untuk menghasilkan bilah keris, dikreasikan dengan retorika metaforis untuk merepresentasikan citra Mandiri Securitas  dalam melayani konsumennya mampu bekerja dengan baik atau tidak dengan melihat masing-masing peran dari domain retorika perkerisan dan retorika perbankan dikeduanya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui secara kritis retorika metaforis dua domain itu dengan melihat masing-masing peran dari elemen-elemen pembentuk film iklan Mandiri Securitas. Metode penelitian ini mengggunakan deskriptif kualitatif dekontruksi dengan teknik “apropriasi minus one” melalui pembongkaran domain perbankan dan domain perkerisan untuk melihat posisi retorika metaforis filmis iklan Mandiri Securitas . Film iklan memuat elemen-elemen penyusunnya seperti visual, audio, efek “animated<em>”</em> serta “<em>voice over”</em> yang mendukung terbentuknya metafora iklan. Melalui apropriasi “<em>minus one</em>” dapat ditemukan posisi retorika visual domain “perkerisan” mampu membawakan pesan dari produk yang diinginkan oleh Mandiri Securitas , tetapi jika “<em>animated text</em>” dan “<em>voice over”</em> dihilangkan, maka tidak nampak hubungan retoris di keduanya. </p><p> </p><p>Kata Kunci: retorika, metafora, film iklan, perbankan, perkerisan</p><p> </p><pre><strong>Abstract</strong></pre><pre><strong> </strong></pre><p><br /> <em>Mandiri Securitas Advertising Film is an advertising film using the rhetoric strategy of visual communication of the kris masters as a creative approach. The theme as a basic idea for the creation of the Mandiri Securitas advertisement film seeks to understand the effort of working hard to produce details from the master's work to produce a keris blade, created with metaphorical rhetoric to represent the image of Mandiri Securitas in serving its customers whether they can work well or not by looking at each the role of the political rhetoric domain and banking rhetoric in both.</em><em> </em><em>The purpose of this study was to critically identify the two domain metaphorical rhetoric by looking at each role of the constituent elements of the Mandiri Securitas  advertising film. This research method uses descriptive qualitative deconstruction by </em>"appropriation minus one"<em> technique through the dismantling of the banking domain and the domain of perkerisan to see the position of the filmmatic metaphorical rhetoric of the Mandiri Securitas  advertisement. Advertising films contain constituent elements such as visual, audio, animated effects and voice over that support the formation of advertising metaphors. Through appropriation </em>"minus one"<em> can be found the position of visual rhetoric of the keris domain is able to deliver messages from products desired by Mandiri Securitas , but if "</em>animated text<em>" and "</em>voice over"<em> are removed, there is no rhetorical relationship in both.</em></p><p> </p><pre><em>Keyword: rhetoric, metaphora, advertising film, banking,</em> kris</pre>

Risk, Desire and Adaptation: The Paradox of Queer Solidarity and the Political Possibility of Death Under Neoliberalism and Homonationalism

Somatechnics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200
Author(s):  
Natalie Kouri-Towe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Strategy I

In 2015, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid Toronto (QuAIA Toronto) announced that it was retiring. This article examines the challenges of queer solidarity through a reflection on the dynamics between desire, attachment and adaptation in political activism. Tracing the origins and sites of contestation over QuAIA Toronto's participation in the Toronto Pride parade, I ask: what does it mean for a group to fashion its own end? Throughout, I interrogate how gestures of solidarity risk reinforcing the very systems that activists desire to resist. I begin by situating contemporary queer activism in the ideological and temporal frameworks of neoliberalism and homonationalism. Next, I turn to the attempts to ban QuAIA Toronto and the term ‘Israeli apartheid’ from the Pride parade to examine the relationship between nationalism and sexual citizenship. Lastly, I examine how the terms of sexual rights discourse require visible sexual subjects to make individual rights claims, and weighing this risk against political strategy, I highlight how queer solidarities are caught in a paradox symptomatic of our times: neoliberalism has commodified human rights discourses and instrumentalised sexualities to serve the interests of hegemonic power and obfuscate state violence. Thinking through the strategies that worked and failed in QuAIA Toronto's seven years of organising, I frame the paper though a proposal to consider political death as a productive possibility for social movement survival in the 21stcentury.

Does socioeconomic status moderate the political divide on climate change? The roles of education, income, and individualism

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 102024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew T. Ballew ◽  
Adam R. Pearson ◽  
Matthew H. Goldberg ◽  
Seth A. Rosenthal ◽  
Anthony Leiserowitz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Divide

scholarly journals Anti-populism during the Yellow Vest protests: From combatting the Rassemblement National to dealing with street populists

2021 ◽  
pp. 136914812097401
Author(s):  
Soraya Hamdaoui
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Protest Movement ◽  
The One ◽  
Ordinary Citizens ◽  
Populist Party

This article analyses the anti-populist strategy of La République en marche! (LREM) during the Yellow Vest protests by comparing it with the one used against the Rassemblement National (RN), France’s main populist party. It argues that while the political elites of LREM have ostracised and strongly demonised the RN to contain its progression, their reaction to the populist protest movement was more balanced and cautious. As they were facing ordinary citizens asking for more fiscal justice and direct democracy rather than radical right politicians of the RN, LREM behaved in a more conciliatory way and softened their rhetoric of demonisation. Overall, the article distinguishes two types of anti-populism: an adversarial one to face a populist party and an accommodative one to deal with a populist social movement.

scholarly journals Rethinking Climate, Climate Change, and Their Relationship with Water

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 849
Author(s):  
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
Main Element ◽  
The Political ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
External Agent ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Water Issues

We revisit the notion of climate, along with its historical evolution, tracing the origin of the modern concerns about climate. The notion (and the scientific term) of climate was established during the Greek antiquity in a geographical context and it acquired its statistical content (average weather) in modern times after meteorological measurements had become common. Yet the modern definitions of climate are seriously affected by the wrong perception of the previous two centuries that climate should regularly be constant, unless an external agent acts upon it. Therefore, we attempt to give a more rigorous definition of climate, consistent with the modern body of stochastics. We illustrate the definition by real-world data, which also exemplify the large climatic variability. Given this variability, the term “climate change” turns out to be scientifically unjustified. Specifically, it is a pleonasm as climate, like weather, has been ever-changing. Indeed, a historical investigation reveals that the aim in using that term is not scientific but political. Within the political aims, water issues have been greatly promoted by projecting future catastrophes while reversing true roles and causality directions. For this reason, we provide arguments that water is the main element that drives climate, and not the opposite.

Umstrittene Expertise

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Controversial Nature

The current political debates about climate change or the coronavirus pandemic reveal the fundamental controversial nature of expertise in politics and society. The contributions in this volume analyse various facets, actors and dynamics of the current conflicts about knowledge and expertise. In addition to examining the contradictions of expertise in politics, the book discusses the political consequences of its controversial nature, the forms and extent of policy advice, expert conflicts in civil society and culture, and the global dimension of expertise. This special issue also contains a forum including reflections on the role of expertise during the coronavirus pandemic. The volume includes perspectives from sociology, political theory, political science and law.

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