{"product_id":"environmental-activism-the-media","title":"Environmental Activism \u0026 The Media","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than 40 years politicians, activists, advocates, and individuals have been seeking ways to solve the problem of climate change. Governments and the United Nations have taken an economic path, while others seek solutions in the equality of climate justice. Taking the step from green consumer to the streets at climate summits and protest camps, as well as taking direct action recasts activists as everything from tree huggers, to domestic extremists, to ecoterrorists. Political policing and new legislation increasingly criminalizes environmental activism, supported by media reporting that recasts environmental activism as actions to be feared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy this has happened and how activists have learned to circumvent the media’s recasting is the story of \u003cem\u003eEnvironmental Activisim and the Media: The Politics of Protest\u003c\/em\u003e. Through media movements to persuade the moveable middle, high court challenges, and gatekeeping, activists have found ways to challenge media and political discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book identifies four key areas to tie together diverse sets of green governmentality, traditional media discourse, and activism: (1) environmental governance and green governmentality; (2) historical media discourse; (3) alternative communication infrastructures; and (4) local to the global. Using data from 50 interviews, archival research, and non-participatory observation from environmental activists from the UK, USA, and Australia, this text will show why protest is important in democratic political participation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom activists to slacktivists, \u003cem\u003eEnvironmental Activism and the Media: The Politics of Protest\u003c\/em\u003e is for those with an interest in cultural, social, and political studies; democratic processes; climate and social justice; governmentality; and\/or the study of environmental politics, human geography, communication, and sustainability. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57321184428414,"sku":"NW9781433150104","price":33.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781433150104.jpg?v=1778712115","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/environmental-activism-the-media","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}