{"title":"Series: Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eEnvironmental Communication, Power, and Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e series explores the intricate relationships between society, nature, and the narratives that shape our understanding of the world. Readers will find thoughtful examinations of how cultural values and power dynamics influence environmental discourse, highlighting the intersection of philosophy, history, and social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith works that challenge conventional perspectives, this collection invites reflection on the role of communication in fostering awareness and action. Whether through critical theory or insight into human behaviour, these titles illuminate the complex dialogue between people and the environment.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"beyond-straw-men-by-phaedra-c-pezzullo-9780520393646","title":"Beyond Straw Men","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAddressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Straw Men\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith attention to both on- and offline organising 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854054478060,"sku":"9780520393646","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7156793482373.jpg?v=1759232961"},{"product_id":"postracial-fantasies-and-zombies-by-eric-king-watts-9780520403789","title":"Postracial Fantasies and Zombies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEric King Watts examines key moments when Blackness became an object of knowledge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, laying the \"scientific\" and philosophical groundwork for interpreting zombie lore. The book treats the \"Greater Caribbean\" as a transformative space where an antiblack infrastructure arose and interrogates the US's militarised domination of Haiti, which provided the context in which the zombie emerged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWatts traces variations in the form and function of the zombie to contemplate its relevance to our contemporary struggles with racism and pandemic policies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostracial Fantasies and Zombies\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to consider these intersections within the prism of pop culture and societal fears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461294309612,"sku":"9780520403789","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520403789-postracial-fantasies-and-zombies.jpg?v=1774964036"},{"product_id":"violent-inheritance-by-e-cram-9780520379473","title":"Violent Inheritance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eViolent Inheritance\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnalyzing struggles over memory cultures through the region's land use controversies at the turn of and well into the twentieth century, Cram unpacks the consequences of western settlement and the energy regimes that fueled it. Transfusing queer eco-criticism with archival and ethnographic research, Cram reconstructs the linkages—\"land lines\"—between infrastructure, violence, sexuality, and energy and shows how racialized sexual knowledges cultivated settler colonial cultures of both \u003cem\u003einnervation\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eenervation\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the residential school system to elite health seekers desiring the \"electric\" climates of the Rocky Mountains to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, Cram demonstrates how the environment promised to some individuals access to vital energy and to others the exhaustion of populations through state violence and racial capitalism. 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