Toxic Media Ecologies

Critical Responses to the Cultural Politics of Planetary Crises

AvSourayan Mookerjea,Donia Mounsef

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This edited collection explores strategies of critique for responding to what many commentators now refer to as our current poly-crises.Today, economic, political, cultural, social, environmental and personal crises increasingly collapse together into situations of toxic shock which intensify repression and process lives into toxic waste. Drawing on the expansive understanding of mediation in the Canadian communication tradition deriving from Harold A. Innis and Marshall McLuhan and on eco-criticism of media environments, Toxic Media Ecologies foregrounds the objective subjectiveness of crises and considers how we as subjects are connected to each other through crises. Critical essays presented in Part One interrogate topics ranging from money and feminist science fiction to the online Alt-Right and racism. Parts Two and Three present theoretical reflections on research-creation engagements with pedagogies, ecology and poetry, as well as design, care-work, performance art and pedagogical games. Overall, this volume elaborates on the thesis that ecological crises are fundamentally historical, political and cultural and presents a novel juxtaposition and comparison between cultural studies and research-creation critical approaches.Innovative and transdisciplinary in its approach, Toxic Media Ecologies will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental communication and media, environmental humanities, environmental justice, political ecology and media studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-05
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media
Antal sidor:258
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041358879

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Sourayan Mookerjea is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada.Donia Mounsef is a Professor of Drama at the University of Alberta, Canada.

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“Going through the most turbulent time in global history – since the 1940s – with wars, genocide and erratic leadership across the world, we need careful unpacking of our current state of affairs that might almost be characterised as ‘Fascism redux’. Through a robust and well-referenced polemic, this edited volume strives to make sense of it all.”- Pat Brereton, Emeritus Professor of Communications at Dublin City University, Ireland

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Introduction: Toxic Media EcologiesSourayan Mookerjea PART I – The Ghosts of Cultural Studies1. Toxic Money: Economic Globalization and its Currencies, Edible and Not Karin Harrasser 2. Surveillance, Sousveillance, & the Crisis of Invisibility: Performing Bodies as ‘Dark Matters’Donia Mounsef 3. Iturbide's Iguanas: Visual Sovereignty and Narrative Reclamation in the Latin American Indigenous ImageStephen Cruikshank 4. Being Better after the End: Dramatizing Care-ful Feminist Successor Science in Élisabeth Vonarburg’s The Silent City Ariel Kroon 5. The Generativity of the Clinamen: A Response to the Pandemic through Serres’ The Birth of Physics Nicholas Hardy 6. Toxic Intermedia Environments: Fascism Redux and the AI FrontierSourayan Mookerjea PART II – Research-Creation as “Poly-Disciplinamorous”7. Research-Creation Pedagogies: How to Make Art… Revisited Natalie Loveless 8. Ecologix: Ecosophic Styling in Toxic TimesJessie Beier 9. A Provocation from the Open Secret Research SPORERob Jackson PART III – Case Studies in Research-Creation10. Design Beyond Anthropos (Talking to Rocks)Daniel Walker 11. End-Times, Neoliberalism & Love: Layers Fitted to the EarthLeila Plouffe 12. Pilgrimage: Being in the End TimesKyle Terrence 13. Perfect Storm! Molecular Media and the Politics of Regeneration Sourayan Mookerjea 14. Incorporating a Critical Approach to Power Dynamics through Representation in Serious Games on Climate ChangeEvalyna Bogdan 15. Energic Pedagogy: Curating Deep Energy Literacy through the Politics of PlayJordan Kinder CONCLUSIONReading Obliquely in Beirut, or Crisis-ness as NecropoliticsDonia Mounsef