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Carbon Capitalism and Communication

Confronting Climate Crisis

Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Carbon, Capitalism, Communication

    • Graham Murdock, Benedetta Brevini
    Pages 1-20
  3. Communication and Carbon Capitalism: Contested Futures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. An Interview with Naomi Klein: Capitalism Versus the Climate

      • Naomi Klein, Christopher Wright
      Pages 31-38
  4. Corporate Capture: PR Strategies and Promotional Gambits

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
  5. Communication and Campaigning: Oppositions and Refusals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
    2. Journalism, Climate Communication and Media Alternatives

      • Robert A. Hackett, Shane Gunster
      Pages 173-186
    3. An Interview with Alan Rusbridger: Keep it in the Ground

      • Alan Rusbridger, Benedetta Brevini
      Pages 187-191

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.



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

  • School of Literature, Arts and Media, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Benedetta Brevini

  • Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom

    Graham Murdock

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.

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Softcover Book USD 44.99
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