[ecrea] New book - Media and Transnational Climate Justice: Indigenous Activism and Climate Politics

New book:

/Media and Transnational Climate Justice: Indigenous Activism and 
Climate Politics/

by Anna Roosvall & Matthew Tegelberg

/Media and Transnational Climate Justice/ captures the intriguing nexus 
of globalization, crisis, justice, activism and news communication, at a 
time when radical measures are increasingly demanded to address one of 
the most pressing global issues: climate change. Anna Roosvall and 
Matthew Tegelberg take a unique approach to climate justice by focusing 
on transnational rather than international aspects, thereby contributing 
to the development of theories of justice for a global age, as well as 
in relation to media studies. The book specifically explores the roles, 
situations and activism of indigenous peoples who do not have full 
representation at UN climate summits despite being among those most 
exposed to injustices pertaining to climate change, as well as to 
injustices relating to politics and media coverage. This book thus 
scrutinizes political and ideological dimensions of the global 
phenomenon of climate change through interviews and observations with 
indigenous activists at UN climate summits, in combination with 
extensive empirical research conducted on legacy and social media 
coverage of climate change and indigenous peoples. The authors conclude 
by discussing transnational solidarity and suggest a solidarian mode of 
communication as a response to both the global crisis of climate change 
and the broader issues of injustice faced by indigenous peoples 
regarding redistribution, recognition and political representation.

“What is the role of the media in communicating climate justice? Who 
speaks and who should speak? Rigorous and clear, this is the first 
volume that explores these questions as questions of struggle over 
voice. It offers a compelling critique of dominant climate reporting and 
makes a strong case for listening to the indigenous populations that 
suffer from our changing environment.”—Lilie Chouliaraki, Professor, 
Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and 
Political Science

“A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study of activism and media based on 
original research. This is a timely and insightful contribution to 
theorizing global justice as involving solidarity and voice beyond 
existing political structures.”—Kate Nash, Professor of Sociology, 
Goldsmiths, University of London, and Faculty Fellow, Center for 
Cultural Sociology, Yale University

“/Media and Transnational Climate Justice/ makes a major contribution to 
our understanding of media and climate change by amplifying and 
contextualizing crucial and often missing voices of transnational 
Indigenous peoples and activist networks. In articulating and defining 
what climate justice means and why it matters, Roosvall and Tegelberg 
reveal the silencing, muffling, and misframing of Indigenous 
perspectives, and highlight the need for more just, fair, and accurate 
journalism that addresses potential universal and particular futures 
with climate change.”—Candis Callison, Associate Professor, Graduate 
School of Journalism, University of British Columbia

“This is a terrific book, deeply unsettling yet ultimately hopeful. 
Carefully argued, innovatively researched, and written with fierce 
optimism, it seeks to reframe and revision a prevailing understanding of 
climate change. It endeavours to add new and necessary voices to a 
conversation that has been lopsided and too often has ignored Indigenous 
input. Read it!”—Mark Cronlund Anderson, Professor in the Department of 
History, University of Regina

“/Media and Transnational Climate Justice/ puts indigenous voices at the 
center of how we understand climate justice, offering an expansive 
analysis of transnational solidarity and the ways that it shapes and is 
shaped by sophisticated forms and practices of media activism. By 
combining the experiences of indigenous media activists, analysis of 
indigenous representations in legacy news, and fresh theoretical insight 
that challenge dominant climate politics, this exceptionally thoughtful 
and well researched book offers a blueprint for media justice. It is an 
essential read not only for those seeking to understand and reform 
climate politics but also for those interested in the ways media can 
support rather than undermine justice.”—Adrienne Russell, Mary Laird 
Wood Professor of Journalism and the Environment, University of Washington

Available as paperback, e-book, etc.: 
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/32024?format=PBK

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