Beyond Straw Men

Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care

Phaedra C. Pezzullo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39364-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Contents

Acknowledgments
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

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture ; 4
Zusatzinfo	28 b-w images
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39364-3 / 0520393643
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39364-6 / 9780520393646
Zustand	Neuware