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Panicocene. Reframing Climate Change-Induced Mobilities
Investigating And Re-Envisioning Narratives On Climate Change Induced Mobilitiesthe Framing Of Climate Change Induced Mobilities (Ccim) In Media Plays A Role In Shaping Social And Cultural Perceptions. The Msca-Funded Panicocene Project Will Investigate How Media In Italy And The United States Have Portrayed Climate Change And Its Impact On Mobilities Over The Past Two Decades. All Too Often, The Images Conjured Are Of Massive And Permanent Cross-Border Movements, Contributing To Apocalyptic And Securitised Climate Imaginaries That Cast Mobilities As A Threat To Western Societies. Such Distortion Calls For Challenging Current Narratives While Offering Alternative Ones Based On Evidence Rather Than Preconceived Notions. The Overall Goals Are To Analyse How Media May Lead To Stereotyping Ccim And Propose A Space For Collaboration Between Academia, Journalism And Activism To Generate Possible Counter-Narratives.
Funded Under
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (Msca)
Total Cost
€ 0,00
Eu Contribution
€ 308 286,72
Coordinated By
Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita Di Bologna
Italy
Objective
News media framing is a critical yet frequently under-estimated contributor to the social and cultural perception of climate change-induced migration (CCIM). The research project proposes to explore how US and Italian printed and online news media have represented CCIM over the past 20 years, which is identified as a crucial timeframe during which discourses and narratives on CCIM have significantly intensified and changed, and to understand if and how news media and activists rely on research in CCIM. It specifically delves into the nature and structures of such narratives, especially in terms of stereotyping. This project wants to move away from a conceptualisation of the relation between climate change and mobilities in exceptional terms that still is dominant in media, NGO advocacy and in some policy and academic circles. The overall goals of this project are firstly to identify and analyze the ways by which news media may lead to stereotyping CCIM, in the context of major environmental disasters and with reference to the COVID-19 pandemic, thus impacting perceptions of readerships, general audiences and ultimately policy-making, and secondly to investigate and, possibly foster through the creation of a Platform, a collaboration between activists, journalists, and academics in CCIM issues. Beliving the power of representation is central to a climate mobility regime and using ‘mobility justice’ as an analytical lens, PANICOCENE would like to move beyond alarming and uncertain narratives on CCIM, which might increase ‘uncertainty’ in public understanding of the issue, and to find new and alternative ways to frame it and to disseminate research outside the academia in media debates.
