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-.xxlargetext[Mobilising the Churches on the Environment:]  
-.xlargetext[A Summary of the Research]
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-.mediumtext[002019 Feb 25]
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-.largetext[Jeremy Kidwell]  
-.mediumtext[University of Birmingham]  
-.mediumtext[*School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion*]
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-.smalltext[*Note: this presentation is a website, you can view it here: http://bit.ly/mobilising_churches19*]
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-.footnote[Email: [j.kidwell@bham.ac.uk](mailto:j.kidwell@bham.ac.uk) • Twitter [@kidwellj](https://twitter.com/kidwellj)]
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-## What does successful mobilisation look like?
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-- Improved public visibility on issues of concern
-- Enhanced engagement with poliymakers
-- Impact! ... responsive action on both household and public policy levels
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-In practice: marches, demonstations, "buzz", large crowds, energy, surprises...
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-![Person speaking to climate march crowd](images/climate_march.jpg)
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-## "Mobilisation" Caveat #1:
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-Not just *action* but **quality of** action
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-- Implies a better understanding of the underpinning issues (do we understand what is at stake in mobilisation on climate change, or do we just "feel" it?)
-- Involves reflection on effective forms it might take
-- May generate less visible forms of enhanced relationality: new alliances and an improved basis for future political action.
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-## "Mobilisation" Caveat #2:
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-We (Christians) have some specific barriers
-1. **Policymakers** do not understand how Christians are engaging with environmental issues
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-We (Christians) have some specific barriers
-1. Policymakers do not understand how Christians are engaging with environmental issues
-2. **Scholars** do not understand how Christians are engaging with environmental issues
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-We (Christians) have some specific barriers
-1. Policymakers do not understand how Christians are engaging with environmental issues
-2. Scholars do not understand how Christians are engaging with environmental issues
-3. **Christians** do not understand how Christians are engaging with environmental issues
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-My solution: establish an **integrative scholarly field** in engagement with policymakers, scholars, and churches.
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-- Eco-theology has struggled to engage with mainstream Christian scholarly reflection
-- Executives can tend to privilege social psychology and economics over anthropology (e.g. "bar charts" over "books"!)
-- Social scientists have reinforced rather than questioned stereotypes about Christainity
-- Political leadership lacks literacy about religion in Britain
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-.footnote[.red[*] Note: secular policymakers and scholars are waking up to the significance of religion and spiritual values. For more on this, see my [Cambridge presentation](https://jeremykidwell.info/files/presentations/presentation_20180130_cambridge_energy.html) and read our paper on "Religion and social values for sustainability" in [Sustainability Science](https://jeremykidwell.info/publications/2019_religion_social_values/) just out this year.]
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-## My work involves:
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-- Working with theological reflection, ethnography of religious environmentalism and data science. 
-- This is *theologically* informed study of Christian environmentalists flowing into a conversation with geographers, policical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, economists.
-- Communicate this research to public policy audience, third sector, and Christian communities.
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-http://bit.ly/eco-research-summary
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-## So what have we learned so far?
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-### There are **four different types** of *community environmental group* at the grassroots:
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-- The **.red[lone voices]**: a single person working in the midst of either indifference or hostility in the wider community.
-- The **.red[local heroes]**: as above but with sanction and/or indirect support by the wider community. 
-- **.red[Small but active]**: a small and generally self-contained group of 3-12 persons.
-- Large with differential involvements (**.red[LDI]**): many people with varying levels of participation.
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-### We need to find ways to engage and support all four types.
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-# Up-scaling
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-- Christian environmental groups may sometimes form ad-hoc regional/national networks.
-- On the level of these "leaner" networks, information can be disseminated more efficiently and experiments may be multipled.
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-# Denominations?
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-We found that denominations are not always the most meaningful divisions.
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-*At the level of .red[community and region], orientations towards environmental action may coalesce around local community concerns and/or .red[denominational structure].* 
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-Put another way, we may find that Christian Eco-Groups cluster in two genres:
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-- Cluster 1: churches which are hierarchical/bureaucratic  
-(CofE, CofS, RC, Methodist, etc.)
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-- Cluster 2: churches which lack formal meta-organisationsal structure  
-(Quaker, evangelical, baptist, etc.)
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-## How do Christians mobilise? 
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-### Key context 1. 
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-## Christians are modest about their achievements
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-- Possibly lower ambition re: grants and projects
-- Hidden achievements
-- Self-description (and public opinion) is dampened
-- Comparison to other groups is often negative
-- Work by Christians working in other contexts (FOE, Green Peace, community agriculture, etc.) may be ascribed to other secular groups
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-### Key context 2. 
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-## Christian eco-groups focus on local community
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-e.g. Churches are good at forming and running committees, and sub-committees...
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-- Default .red[focus on building fabric] as site for eco-interventions (solar panels, boiler replacement, windows, lighting, etc.) and .red[church-yard] (if not managed by council)
-- "Slow" pace of work (which can impact planning and funding horizons)
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-#### *Note: these are not bad things!*
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-## Take-away 1: issues are not the driver
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-Whereas for national networks and campaigning organisations, "action" and "issues" can often serve as the main driver.
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-In contrast, with community groups, the opposite is often the case.
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-Groups are driven by community formation and support, and issues come afterwards..red[*]
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-.footnote[.red[*] For more on this, check out ["Christian climate care: Slow change, modesty, and eco-theo-citizenship"](https://jeremykidwell.info/publications/2018_geo/) - hot off the press in 2018.]
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-## Take-away 2. churches are a place for niche & Experimentation
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-Smaller community groups can help to form a "niche" which can serve as laboratories for testing out new ideas.red[*]]
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-.footnote[.red[*] For more on this, check out: René Kemp, Johan Schot & Remco Hoogma, 1998. "[Regime shifts to sustainability through processes of niche formation: the approach of strategic niche management](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09537329808524310)." Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 175–198. For an overview of research into sustainability transitions see: Jochen Markard, Rob Raven & Bernhard Truffer, 2012. ["Sustainability transitions: an emerging field of research and its prospects"](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004873331200056X). Res. Policy 41 (6), 955–967.]
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-# Tactics and Tools for Mobilisation
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-## Strategy 1: Target engagement
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-The majority of Eco-groups involve a small unfunded group of volunteers.
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-They work really hard but **their work can be precarious**. Small resources / encouragement can provide an outsize effect. Similarly, for setbacks.
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-Community groups and churches can have tremendous **impact within a small space** and have **access to social networks** which are unknown and inaccessible to NGOs and National leadership.
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-We're often used to the "direct" approach to the public, but might we find ways to treat community groups as intermediaries?
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-Practical suggestion 1: *Alongside mass campaigns, and broad denomination-level outreach, .red[consider sub-setting groups] for targetted outreach and engagement.
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-Practical suggestion 2: Support community anchors as "beacon" projects; invest in established projects to leverage as support agents for new projects
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-## Strategy 2: Reach the spectrum
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-An outsize amount of resource goes to London and the Central Belt in Scotland.
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-Some areas are "sleeping" and others are "soldiering"
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-We need to wake up the sleepers and support the soldiers.
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-I can help!
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-[http://mapping.community](http://mapping.community)
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