The Mediation of Sustainability

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Topic: Sixth international Mediation of Sustainability Conference

Time: Jun 4, 2024 12:30 PM Jakarta

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On 1 January 2015, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into force. The UN describes its Sustainable Development Goals as ‘a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future’. Consisting of 17 inter-connected fields of activity, the UNSDGs are framed as a moral intervention, and couched in the language of development. It is this perspective – an apparently progressive commitment to justice combined with adherence to the expansion of the economy – that has encountered both support and indeed criticism from academic commentators. While Kopnina believed that the UNSDGs will lead to ‘a greater spread of unsustainable production and consumption’ (2015), the sheer scale of the UN’s ambitions prompted Biermann et al (2017) to note that ‘[the Goals] collective success will depend on a number of institutional factors such as the extent to which states … translate the global ambitions into national contexts’.

In essence, the SDGs address a number of ‘stakeholders’- ranging from multinationals to Governments; NGO’s and of course are regarded as objectives that should apply to all citizens of the world. Over the remaining seven years of this programme, the UN intends to readdress its efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that ‘no one is left behind’. Invariably, the midway point for this ambitious venture has been marred by several factors including i) repercussions from the global pandemic, ii) conflict in several theatres of war, iii) a worldwide financial crises, iv) the fragmentation of international trade agreements, v) the decline of political alliances, and vi) the rapid deterioration of environments and ecosystems. More alarming still, institutions such as the European Union have reported a decline if not reversal of SDG agendas such as gender-based violence and disparity in the workplace (both during and following the pandemic), an even greater financial divide than originally forecast (driving poverty, reducing opportunities, education, health and welfare), and year-on-year hostile weather patterns leading to floods and wildfires across the European continent and in other territories as well.

The intention of this conference is to examine the progress made in the fight to end poverty, to promote health, to develop sustainable cities, to prevent further climate change, to facilitate economic growth, protect the oceans, and end world hunger. The event aims to celebrate successful SDG initiatives as well as outline new areas of activity/ existing risks.

Potential themes include:

· sustainable media, media practice, and sustainability research

· links between business, economy, regeneration, and sustainability

· sustainability in the arts, creative practice, media production, film and television

· how the SDGs are communicated or promoted within ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ nations

· the extent to which these goals being measured, enacted, enabled, or resisted

· sustainability in education, pedagogy, and curricula

· grassroots initiatives that may embrace or go beyond the framework set by the UN

· the social, political, cultural and economic barriers to the attainment of the UNSDGs

· emerging areas of interest regarding disability discrimination, inclusion or research

· the application of discourse/multi-modal approaches to the textual material produced within a material/symbolic environment

· the representation of groups identified as vulnerable and in need of support

· the ways in which the rights of women, notions of gendered identity, descriptions of class location, and ideas about race/ethnicity are articulated (or not) within the UNSDGs

· the use (or appropriation) by state and corporate authority of discourses that attempt to reproduce the symbolic references employed by the UN

· who, within the various DAC territories and within ‘developed’ nations, are presented as the main proponents, actors, or opponents of the UNSDGs

· the relationship between the UNSDGs and the concept and practice of globalisation

· the role of policing, surveillance, regimes of border-control, and other barriers and impediments to collective social action

· the relationship between the Goals and the activity of social movements

· how ‘existential’ and other threats are constituted through the language and images used in the SDGs

· the media ecology/context of the call and the responses it creates

· case studies covering the successes or failures of the initiatives

The draft programme as outlined below, will be delivered in person and online at the LSPR Business and Communications Institue, Bekasi.

4th June 2024 Conference 1pm Jakarta time 7am GMT

6:50am Introduction - Dr Ben Harbisher – Coventry University

7:00am Welcome - Dr Ibu Prita Kemal Gani

7.10am Miklos Gaspar – United Nations

7.30am Prof Stuart Price – Media Discourse Centre

8:00am Dan Finnemore – Coventry University

8.30am Mr. Yanuar Nugroho - Coordinator of the Expert Team for the Indonesia National SDGs Secretariat

9:00am John Coster – Doc Media Centre

9:30am Prof Marco Polo -De La Salle University Dasmarinas

10:00am Silvia Ravazzani – IULM University & Carmen Daniela Maier - Aarhus University

10:30am Prof Rudi Sukandar - LSPR

11:00am Serenity Wise - Aukland

11:30am Rhys Davies – De Montfort University/ Hive Films

12:00pm Buket Yenidogan – Coventry University

12.30pm Dr Jong Sze Joon - UNIMAS

13:00pm Candida Jau Emang - UNIMAS

13:30pm Heidi Philipsen - University of Southern Denmark

14:00pm Prof. Jason Lee - De Montfort University