Beyond Straw Men

Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care

Phaedra C. Pezzullo

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English

University of California Press
22 August 2023

Communication studies; Media studies; Social issues & processes; Political activism; Conservation of the environment; Pollution & threats to the environment

Series: Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture

"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 today. With attention to both on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages advocacy campaigns, public controversies, and policies through cogent analysis and interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the US, and Vietnam. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis—an entry point into the contested contemporary 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—and detachments—Pezzullo illustrates how readers can resist unsustainable patterns of the plastics-industrial complex through imperfect but impactful networked cultures of care."

By: Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780520393639
ISBN 10: 0520393635
Series: Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 22 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.