[Commlist] Networking Knowledge 14(2) published - Special Issue: "Climate, Creatures and COVID-19: Environment and Animals in Twenty-First Century Media Discourse"

The Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) 
postgraduate network journal/Networking Knowledge///is delighted to 
announce the publication of a special issue on the topic 'Climate, 
Creatures and COVID-19: Environment and Animals in Twenty-First Century 
Media Discourse'. This issue coincides with the start of COP26 in 
Glasgow. The full issue and individual contributions can be viewed here: 
https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/issue/view/70


This special issue of /Networking Knowledge /features much-needed 
contributions to discussions about environment and ecology, particularly 
in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the increasing urgency of the 
climate crisis, changed ways of working, communicating, and thinking and 
being in the world. These interventions are provided by postgraduate and 
early-career researchers from a range of disciplines and cover a range 
of subjects, all relevant to reflecting on the pre-COVID-19 world and 
what we might still perceive as a ‘normal’ to be returned to or 
reconfigured, the events of the pandemic and lockdown, and/or 
constructions of the future, and the kind of recovery that is desirable 
and achievable.

Maki Eguchi 
<https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/647> 
analyses a Japanese TV drama and its portrayal of pre-pandemic dairy 
farming, while Catherine Price 
<https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/641> 
considers genetically modified animals and the rhetorical construction 
of monstrosity. Lynda M. Korimboccus 
<https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/651> asks 
us to consider animals in children’s television, and the hypocrisy and 
cognitive dissonance of ham sandwiches in /Peppa Pig/lunchboxes. Xin 
Zhao <https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/629> 
questions how the notion of ‘public’ is constructed in the reporting of 
environmental justice policy in China, and Callum Bateson 
<https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/644> 
describes how the stories of Máiréad Ní Mhionacháin can help us to think 
about the importance of environmental belonging and the impact of 
colonialism in the Anthropocene.

Tayler Zavitz and Corie Kielbiski 
<https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/643> 
juxtapose Bong Joon Ho’s/Okja /(2017) and Karen Joy Fowler’s/We Are All 
Completely Beside Ourselves/(2013) to analyse the power of entertainment 
media in creating attitudes about animal rights and welfare activism. 
Nivedita Tuli and Azam Danish 
<https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/646> show 
the role of Instagram in environmental justice, and how the platform can 
distort and appropriate environmental and animal rights and welfare 
campaigns into personal celebrity, marketing and other political 
agendas. Jack Buchanan 
<https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/645> 
offers an analysis of ecological practice and worldhood in the work of 
Welsh filmmaker Scott Barley, while Nikki E. Bennett and Elizabeth 
Johnson 
<https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/642> 
talk/Tiger King/, and the impact the series has (or hasn’t) had on 
public engagement with, and attitudes to, the ownership of big cats for 
human entertainment. The special issue also contains a review 
<https://www.ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/668> of 
the book /Filling the Ark: Animal welfare in disasters/.

Theoretical work from critical animal studies, posthumanism, the 
environmental humanities and media studies is brought to bear on 
subjects that are relevant to how we have navigated (or failed to 
navigate) interspecies relationships and the entanglement of humans and 
ecology in the past, and how the pandemic period might offer us an 
opportunity to reconsider and change direction.

We hope you enjoy this special issue of the journal, and would be very 
grateful if you could share this in your networks. Any enquiries can be 
directed to Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Jones (atrebecca.jones /at/ strath.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(rebecca.jones /at/ strath.ac.uk)>

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