CONTEXTUALISING CLIMATE CRISIS
Dates: January, 2021 - December, 2021
Location: Online
Curated by: Orsod Malik
Presented by: Stuart Hall FoundationSupported by: Arts Council England
Stuart Hall may not have tackled the issue of climate change using the same language that we use today but it’s interesting to think about some of the questions his scholarship helps us pose about its mediation:
How is the climate crisis represented? On whose terms is the crisis communicated? Where are the dominant narratives around climate change centred? From which direction are dissenting voices interrupting dominant narratives?
Hall gives us the conceptual tools necessary to locate the contradictions in discourses around climate change and to develop deeper and more inclusive understandings of the catastrophe facing us all.
The Contextualising Climate Crisis series posits a counter-narrative to dominant mediations of the crisis. It seeks to complicate top-down approaches to circumventing climate change – championed by the political and business elite of the global north – to contextualise the crisis within a history of colonisation, foreign policy, global economic disparities, and racialised injustices.
The series is designed to contribute to a people’s history of climate change that centres the political agency of those most affected by it, and to highlight the longstanding traditions of resisting climate antagonisms and colonisation simultaneously.
Climate Justice From Below: Race, Class and Climate Crisis with Jhannel Tomlinson and Leon Sealey-Huggins
Frontlines: Land and the Climate Crisis with Abeer Butmeh, Dr Hamza Hamouchene and Sam Siva