Climate Change Denial and Public Relations (eBook, PDF)

Strategic communication and interest groups in climate inaction
Redaktion: Almiron, Núria; Xifra, Jordi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book on climate denial and lobbying that combines the ideology of denial and the role of anthropocentrism in the study of interest groups and communication strategy, and presents a critical approach to climate change denial from a strategic communication perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351121781
• Artikelnr.: 57073343

Autorenporträt

Núria Almiron is an Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. She studies the ethics and political economy of communication, interest groups and strategic communication, critical animal studies and environment. Her work has appeared in journals such as Journalism Studies, Environmental Communication, and the European Journal of Communication. Jordi Xifra is a Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. He studies public relations from history, philosophy, and filmic perspectives. His work has appeared in journals such as Public Relations Review, Journal of Public Relations Research, and American Behavioral Scientist. He is founder of Public Relations Inquiry.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I: Ethics and anthropocentrism in climate change denial and public
relations
1. Rethinking the Ethical Challenge in Climate Change Lobbying: A
Discussion of Ideological Denial.
2. The Anthropocentric Roots of Public Relations: A (Pre)historical
Approach and Ontological Consideration.
3. An Ecofeminist Analysis of Worldviews and Climate Change Denial.
4. Why Environmentalism Cannot Beat Denialism. An Antispeciesist Approach
to the Ethics of Climate Change.
5. The Elephant in the Room: The Role of Interest Groups in Creating and
Sustaining the Population Taboo.
PART II: Theorizing the Storyline of Climate Change Denial
6. Talking about Climate Change: The Power of Narratives.
7. Climate Change Countermovement Organizations and Media Attention in the
United States.
8. Think Tank Networks and the Knowledge-Interest Nexus: The Case of
Climate Change.
PART III: Lobbying for Denial in climate change
9. The Climate Smokescreen: The Public Relations Consultancies Working to
Obstruct Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Europe-A Critical Approach.
10. "Cowgate": Meat Eating and Climate Change Denial.
11. "This Nagging Worry About the Carbon Dioxide Issue": Nuclear Denial and
the Nuclear Renaissance Campaign.
PART IV: Advocating against Climate Change Denial
12. Fighting Climate Change Denial in the United States.
13. A Wicked Systems Approach to Climate Change Advocacy.
Index