Verdics and images: Exploring how the Aurora movement relates its visual communication about strategic climate litigation to sympathetic publics
(2024) In Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science MESM02 20241LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
- Abstract
- Strategic Climate Litigation (SCL) has recently gained traction as a repertoire of social movement organisations to instigate change towards sustainability. This thesis aims to understand the imagery of the Aurora movement and how it is used to engage with sympathetic publics around SCL. Applying Panofsky’s (1955) iconographic method, it examines images collected from Aurora’s Instagram channel and members of the movement. The thesis finds that Aurora connects its visuality to SCL through the construction of the ecological crisis, climate justice and crowdfunding narratives, aligned with the visual self-expression of contemporary youth-led climate movements. It also demonstrates that while Aurora’s visual communication encompasses clear... (More)
- Strategic Climate Litigation (SCL) has recently gained traction as a repertoire of social movement organisations to instigate change towards sustainability. This thesis aims to understand the imagery of the Aurora movement and how it is used to engage with sympathetic publics around SCL. Applying Panofsky’s (1955) iconographic method, it examines images collected from Aurora’s Instagram channel and members of the movement. The thesis finds that Aurora connects its visuality to SCL through the construction of the ecological crisis, climate justice and crowdfunding narratives, aligned with the visual self-expression of contemporary youth-led climate movements. It also demonstrates that while Aurora’s visual communication encompasses clear problem definitions and verifications, it does not thoroughly explore alternative narratives and potential negative effects. Despite its limitations in focus and engagement with production, the thesis offers novel empirical insights into social movement scholarship as it effectively connects the concepts of visuality, audiences and SCL. (Less)
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- author
- Rákos, András Dominik LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MESM02 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Youth climate movements, Sweden, Audiences, Iconography, Visual self-expression, Sustainability Science
- publication/series
- Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
- report number
- 2024:037
- language
- English
- id
- 9156404
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-03 08:20:23
- date last changed
- 2024-06-03 08:20:23
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