Climate Change and Post-Political Communication

Media, Emotion and Environmental Advocacy
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-77749-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media

For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, it appeared that their efforts had been spectacularly successful. Yet just at the moment when the campaigners’ goals were being achieved, it seemed that the idea of getting the issue into mainstream discussion had been mistaken all along; that the consensus-building approach produced little or no meaningful action. That is the problem of climate change as a ‘post-political’ issue, which is the subject of this book.

Examining how climate change is communicated in politics, news media and celebrity culture, Climate Change and Post-Political Communication explores how the issue has been taken up by elites as potentially offering a sense of purpose or mission in the absence of political visions of the future, and considers the ways in which it provides a focus for much broader anxieties about a loss of modernist political agency and meaning. Drawing on a wide range of literature and case studies, and taking a critical and contextual approach to the analysis of climate change communication, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of environmental studies, communication studies, and media and film studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hammond, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘Post-political’ climate change 1. Political elites and the search for green meaning 2. Cycles, arenas and norms: understanding news coverage 3. Green consumption, lifestyle journalism and media advocacy 4. Climate change and celebrity culture 5. Celebrity solutions and the radical alternative Conclusion: In search of the political

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Hammond is Professor of Media and Communications at London South Bank University, UK.