Description
| Product ID: | 9780520393646 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture |
| Title: | Beyond Straw Men |
| Subtitle: | Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care |
| Authors: | Author: Phaedra C. Pezzullo |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Social and ethical issues, Social issues & processes, Conservation of the environment, Pollution and threats to the environment, Conservation of the environment, Pollution & threats to the environment |
| Description: | 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-08-22 |
