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Summary of research So We Stand: UK Climate Justice in Performance
So We Stand (SWS) is a new UK social movement dedicated to supporting 'frontline' communities in the struggle for climate justice. As a participant and researcher, my thesis employs extended ethnographic research, interviews, and social theatre workshops to chronicle and analyze So We Stand's performative emergence, and the creative tensions between diverse practices of popular education, community organising, direct action and anti-oppression work. Central questions include where climate justice is being 'placed' by SWS and allies, and, can the overarching rubric of 'climate justice' be practical and focused enough to anchor a platform for political-environmental change? Supervisors Dr Hayden Lorimer
Dr Andrew Cumbers
Recent publications Special Issue of Performance Research, "On Ecology" 17:4 (August 2012) Eds. Stephen Bottoms, Aaron Franks, Paula Kramer Recent research grants Glasgow University Scholarship; 2008 - 2012 Franks, A. 2010. Vulnerability and Uncertainty in our Research - a workshop with ACTive INquiry , £640 (University of Glasgow New Initiatives Fund) Franks, A. and Routledge, P. 2010-2011. Using Popular Education in Anti-Poverty and Environmental Justice Organizing: Bridging Constituencies,
Building Movements, and Crossing Disciplines , £7108 (ESRC). Co-Investigators: L. Kane (University of Glasgow), E. Scandrett (Queen Margaret University). |
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