Overview
- Provides a comprehensive, authoritative, one-stop, overview of the current state and future challenges for research and debate on communication and climate crisis
- Includes contributions from scholars, practitioners, activists as well as well-known figures such as Naomi Klein and former editor in Chief of the Guardian Alan Rusbridger
- Uses case studies and analysis from Europe, North America, Australia, and China
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication (PSMEC)
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About this book
This volume examines the role of communication in contributing to and contesting the current climate crisis. There is now widespread agreement that even if increases in carbon emissions are kept to the current international target the climate crisis will continue to intensify. This book brings together, for the first time, state-of-the-art research with activists’ interventions to place debate around climate crisis within the wider conversation about the changing relations between communications and contemporary capitalism. Contributors include; Naomi Klein, Michael Mann, Alan Rusbridger, Vincent Mosco, Jodi Dean, and leading figures in Greenpeace and 350.org.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Communication and Carbon Capitalism: Contested Futures
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Toxic Technologies: Media Machines and Ecological Crisis
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Corporate Capture: PR Strategies and Promotional Gambits
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Communication and Campaigning: Oppositions and Refusals
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Reviews
“This book will be of interest to all those who recognise the importance of clear communications as key to achieving a low carbon future. It should go on all relevant reading lists immediately.” (John Blewitt, Director MSc Social Responsibility and Sustainability, Aston University, UK)
“Looking at every angle of carbon capitalism and its connections to communication, Brevini and Murdock bring together a multiplicity of voices of scholars and activists in a sobering discussion of the dominant socio-economic-political model and of openings for change. Creative academic analyses such as this one are crucial to inspire critical thinking and help us imagine sustainable and just futures.” (Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal)
“Linking carbon, capitalism and communication is essential to understanding environmental issues. This strong collection brings together critical information and reflections on these urgent problems and should immediately inspire our thinking, research, policies, and praxis.” (Janet Wasko, President, IAMCR)
“Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Crisis, as its title and subtitle indicates, addresses what might be seen as the six Cs that are coming to define the struggle over global warming in our time. The message of the distinguished contributors to this book is clear: if the world is to confront climate change, we must alter the current political-economic hegemony, in communications most of all.” (John Bellamy Foster, editor, Monthly Review, author (with Brett Clark and Richard York) of The Ecological Rift)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Benedetta Brevini is a journalist, media activist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Graham Murdock is Professor of Culture and Economy at Loughborough University, UK.
Graham Murdock is Professor of Culture and Economy at Loughborough University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Carbon Capitalism and Communication
Book Subtitle: Confronting Climate Crisis
Editors: Benedetta Brevini, Graham Murdock
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57876-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57875-0Published: 04 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57876-7Published: 21 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6451
Series E-ISSN: 2634-646X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 259
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies, Environmental Communication, Global/International Culture, Journalism, Social Media, Media and Communication