Description
Book SynopsisFor 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.
Why this has happened and how activists have learned to circumvent the media's recasting is the story of Environmental Activisim and the Media: The Politics of Protest. Through media movements to persuade the moveable middle, high court challenges, and gatekeeping, activists have found ways to challenge media and political
Table of Contents
Illustrations – Acknowledgements – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – Media Governance, EcoActivism and the Traditional Media – Environmental Governance: The Role of Environmental Activism in Contentious Politics – Recasting Environmental Activism as Criminal Dissent: Soft Power, Political Policing and the Media – “Don’t Glue Yourself to the Prime Minister!”—Millennial Media Movements and Alternative Activists’ – Activism is More Than Hits and Likes: Social Media Strategies and the Moveable Middle – Heterotopias: Retaining Power in the Space of Protest – Politics of Protest: Environmental Activism in a Heated World – Conclusion: Environmental Activism and the Media – Index.
