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, mobilised around plastics, reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change today. With attention to both on- and offline organising in the Global South and the Global South of...

This book understands the postracial as a genre—like the zombie apocalypse—that signals a disturbance in society, felt as both terrifying and exciting. The postracial is repetitive and reproduces blackened biothreat bodies, rituals of securitisation, and fantasies of reclaiming white masculine sovereignty. Eric King Watts examines key moments when Blackness became an object of knowledge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,...

Violent Inheritance deepens the analysis of settler colonialism's endurance in the North American West and how infrastructures that ground sexual modernity are both reproduced and challenged by publics who have inherited them. E Cram redefines sexual modernity through extractivism, wherein sexuality functions to extract value from life, including land, air, minerals, and bodies. Analyzing struggles over memory cultures through the...