Environmental News in South America - Conflict, Crisis and Contestation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies, creating not only vulnerabilities to global commodity boom and bust pricing cycles, but also to conflict regarding environmental and cultural degradation from extraction activities. Environmental contestations among indigenous peoples, environmental and social NGOs, state actors, and extraction industries receive media attention, but how these disputes are covered has implications for understandings of media performance in democratizing nations. The authors examine three case studies of environmental contestation in a region that is simultaneously vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and yet has become once again dependent on commodity exportation to industrializing and industrialized nations for economic benefit and social development strategies.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
Release date:	April 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Juliet Pinto • Paola Prado • J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	168
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-47498-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Promotions
LSN:	1-137-47498-X
Barcode:	9781137474988

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