ARTS1240
Week 4: Environmental Activism and Politics
Tutorial Overview
• Assessment 1: Take home exam
• Environmental framing and ideologies
• Assessment 2: Group Project
Assessment 1: Take home exam

Released: 8am, 19 June 2024
Due: 11pm, 21 June 2024
Length: 1600 words
Weight: 40%
Details: Students will need to answer 4 out of 8 presented
questions related to lecture, online and tutorial content.
Each short essay answer can be up to 400 words.
Written feedback will be provided via Turnitin with
the use of a marking rubric.
Assessment 1: Take Home exam
Environmental Framing
• In the lecture this week, Tema Milstein and John Carr introduced the idea of
environmental frames. That we experience and organise the world though specific frames.
• Frames can include: conservationist, capitalist, patriarchal, feminist, Western, Indigenous,
Eastern etc framings…
• How environmental issues are framed, whether in everyday conversation, by political
parties and in the media matter. The way environmental issues are presented are never
neutral. Often particular frames support a specific view and work to obscure others.
• Often environmental issues are framed in a way that may reflect the spectrum of
anthropocentric and ecocentric environmental ideologies.
Environmental ideologies
Anthropocentric--------------------------------------Ecocentric
Mastery---------------------------------------------Reciprocity
Tutorial Activity
1. In groups select a particular environmental issue or a recent (widely reported on)
environmental protest action.
2. Search through different media outlets to see how that story or issue has been
framed by different media groups.
• Examples could be; climate change, renewable energy transitions, Just Stop Oil
painting protests, Blockade Australia Harbour Bridge Tunnel protest.
3. In your groups list the ways in which your example is being framed by different media
outlets, and by participants in these forms of activism.
4. Note any examples of anthropocentric or ecocentric environmental ideologies that
may be underpinning these frames.
Assessment 2: Group Presentation
• Framing matters. It is never neutral.
• For your 2nd Assessment task, think through the ways in which your
environmental issue is conventionally framed.
• How does your environmental change campaign challenge these frames
and introduce new ones?
• How can you challenge anthropocentric environmental ideologies with
ecocentric environmental ideologies?