Beyond Straw Men - Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care

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. Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through analysis of hashtag activism, campaign materials, and podcast interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States, and Vietnam. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis and an entry point into the contested 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, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everyday people resist unsustainable patterns of the plastics-industrial complex through imperfect but impactful networked cultures of care.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture, 4
Release date:	August 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-39363-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-520-39363-5
Barcode:	9780520393639

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