Planetary Politics and Popular Culture

Description

Planetary politics, according to Karen Litfin, are characterised by truly planetary relations of causality that can only be understood and addressed holistically. Popular culture, according to Stuart Hall, should always be studied within the double movement of containment and resistance. My research and teaching bring together the study, and use, of popular culture as both containing radical planetary politics and as a planetary political resistance. Examples include both the teaching of ‘Popular Political Culture’ and ‘Planetary Political Cinema’, and research on ‘Tomorrowland: Critical Social Theory of Planetary Politics’ and ‘Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics’. Somewhere, between Greta Thunberg and Banksy, between Brad Bird and Denis Villeneuve, and between Disney and The Avengers lies an emergent culture of popular planetary politics.

Period	2021 Nov 25
Held at	Department of Communication and Media
Degree of Recognition	National