Beyond straw men plastic pollution and networked cultures of care / Phaedra C. Pezzullo.

Author/creator Pezzullo, Phaedra C.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Description1 online resource
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SeriesEnvironmental communication, power, and culture ; 4
Environmental communication, power, and culture ; 4. UNAUTHORIZED
Abstract "Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Strawmen moves beyond "hot take" or strawman fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing, Pezzullo engages public controversies, policies, and headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the US, and Vietnam through hashtag activism, campaign materials, and her podcast, Communicating Care. She argues that plastics have become an entry point into contested environmental politics, including carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution colonialism, and waste imperialism. Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Strawmen shares how unsustainable patterns of the plastics-industrial complex are resisted through imperfect but impactful networked cultures of care"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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Issued in other formPrint version: Pezzullo, Phaedra C. Beyond straw men Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] 9780520393639
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023005940
ISBN9780520393653 (epub)
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