No Art on a Dead Planet: An Analysis of the Visual and Performance Strategies of Environmental Protest Groups in the Midlands

这项拟议的研究将产生第一个持续分析的视觉和性能strategiesof当代环境抗议团体在中部地区。它将研究该地区抗议的文化策略如何在全球和地方背景下进行谈判，特别是抗议和起义的地方历史。最后，我问区域的特殊性如何改变我们对英国和更广泛的全球北方环境抗议文化的利害关系和战略的理解。随着灭绝叛乱（XR）等运动的兴起，对环境抗议的关注尤其及时。XR由英国各地的130个团体组成（全球超过1142个团体），其中30个团体位于中部地区，全部由当地人经营。因此，我对XR活动的分析将考虑到当地和全球背景，探索这两种不同的地理背景是如何谈判的，以及抗议如何与记忆，公共空间和区域身份相结合。在这样做的时候，我将带来对环境抗议文化史的区域主义和跨国主义的理论。我将探讨当代策略如何可能参考或利用那些在一个地区的前几代人丰富的抗议历史，是广泛代表性不足的环境抗议研究，这往往集中在首都城市。我的研究将解决以下问题：什么是由环保团体使用的视觉策略，以及他们在他们的整体战略有多重要？中部地区的抗议团体在多大程度上参与、反映或与当地的抗议历史相抗衡？当地抗议团体如何以及如何协商全球抗议运动的视觉修辞？全球抗议策略的局限性是什么？这项研究将提供一个更全面的了解运作的地方和区域identityin a global era.我的学术生涯很好地装备了我，与一流的BA（荣誉）和MA在艺术史的区别。这个项目使用的概念工具，我开发了一个关键的参与，在我的硕士学位，同时研究的主题，如可视化冲突，景观，空间和地点。我建议的监督团队包括艺术史和视觉文化，历史和地域主义理论，以及批判生态学方面的专业知识。设在文化、媒体和视觉艺术部，将使从事媒体理论和批判研究、抗议视觉文化、表演和街头戏剧的人能够进行富有成效的对话。

This proposed research will produce the first sustained analysis of the visual and performance strategiesof contemporary environmental protest groups in the Midlands. It will examine the way in which culturalstrategies of protest in this region negotiate both global and local contexts, in particular local histories ofprotest and uprising. Ultimately, I ask how regional specificity changes our understanding of the stakesand strategies of environmental protest culture in the UK and more broadly across the Global north.A focus on environmental protest is especially timely with the rise of movements such as ExtinctionRebellion (XR). XR consists of 130 groups across the UK (more than 1142 groups globally) with 30 groupsin the Midlands, all run by local people. My analysis of XR's activities will thus take into account bothlocal and global contexts, to explore how these two different geographical contexts are negotiated, andhow protest engages with memory, public space and regional identities. In doing so, I will bring to beartheories of regionalism and transnationalism on environmental protest cultural history. I will explore howcontemporary strategies might reference or harness those of previous generations in a region with richprotest history that is broadly underrepresented in environmental protest research, which tends to focusreductively on capital cities.My research will address the following questions; What are the visual strategies used by environmentalgroups, and how important are they in their overall strategy? To what extent do Midlands protest groupsengage, reflect, or contend with local histories of protest? How do and how have local protest groupsnegotiated the visual rhetoric of global protest movements? What are the limitations of global proteststrategies? This research will provide a fuller understanding of the operation of local and regional identityin a global era.My academic career has well equipped me, with a 1st Class BA (hons) and MA with distinction in ArtHistory. This project uses conceptual tools that I developed a critical engagement with during my Mastersdegree while studying topics such as Visualising Conflict, and Landscape, Space and Place. My proposedsupervisory team includes expertise in art history and visual culture, histories and theories ofregionalism, and critical ecology. Being based in the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studieswill enable a productive dialogue with those engaged in theoretical and critical studies of media, thevisual culture of protest, performance and street theatre.