Beyond Straw Men

Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care

AvPhaedra C. Pezzullo

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Del 4 i serien Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture

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Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond “hot take” or straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through analysis of hashtag activism, campaign materials, and podcast interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States, and Vietnam. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis and an entry point into the contested environmental politics of carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism. Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everyday people resist unsustainable patterns of the plastics-industrial complex through imperfect but impactful networked cultures of care.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 41 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520393646

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Phaedra C. Pezzullo is Associate Professor of Communication, Media Studies, Environmental Studies, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of multiple books, including Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice. She is a founding codirector of the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change.

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“Pezzullo’s accessible writing, punctuated by moments of humor and parenthetical asides, makes the book accessible for activists, educators, and general readers alike. Above all, this is a book that will make readers second-guess taking plastics for granted, prompting a deeper reckoning with how our plastic use is ‘structured by and structure our collective lives’ (p. 1).”

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ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: Care amid Oceans of Trouble 1. #ThereIsNoAway: Carbon-Heavy Masculinity and the Life/Death Cycle of Plastics 2. Have a Coke and a #FootprintCalculator: The Myth of Recycling and Transnational Greenwashing 3. From #BanPlasticsKE to #ISupportBanPlasticsKE: Pissed Off Online, Picturing Participation, and Policing Pollution in Kenya 4. Engaging #StrawlessInSeattle and #StopSucking: The Loneliest Whale, Sporting Fun, and American Exceptionalism 5. #SuckItAbleism Intervenes: Eco-normative Shaming, Voicing Justice, and Planetary Fatalism 6. Creating #ToiChonCa (#IChooseFish): Trauma, Affective Art, and Big Tech Dominance Conclusion: #BreakFree(FromPlastics) Notes Bibliography Index