Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care (Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture #4)

By: Phaedra C. Pezzullo

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 288 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780520393653
Related ISBNs:: 9780520393639, 9780520393646
Publisher:: University of California Press
Date of Addition:: 08/22/23
Copyrighted By:: Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Language Arts, Earth Sciences, Communication
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.