[Commlist] Special Issue CFP: Lobbying for (in)action: Climate Emergency, Interest Groups and Denial

Call for Papers
Journal /Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación/
Special issue “Lobbying for (in)action: Climate Emergency, Interest 
Groups and Denial”
Guest Editors: Núria Almiron & Jose A. Moreno (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 
Spain)

This special issue theme is found at the intersection of climate change 
denial and interest groups (like lobbies, think tanks and any type of 
advocacy organization). The special issue aims to encourage researchers 
in any area of the social sciences to focus on the role of interest 
groups in delaying climate policies through an awareness of the 
complexity of climate change denial. We therefore invite papers related 
to this complexity promoting climate inaction and the current climate 
crisis pertaining, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Strategic communication, public relations and media coverage of 
interest groups involved in climate inaction: media representation, 
lobbies and think tanks’ rhetoric, discourse analysis, discursive 
networks, communication strategies, etc.
- Public Affairs, interest groups theory and practice connected to 
climate inaction: institutional relations, profiles of key pressure 
groups, network coalitions, the political economy of lobbies and think 
tanks, etc.
- Anthropocentrism and speciesism in climate inaction connected to 
interest groups: animal agriculture lobbies, dietary guidelines and 
lobbies, think tanks related to the industry, etc.
- Androcentrism and patriarchy in climate inaction connected to interest 
groups: toxic and new masculinities, ecomodernism, industrialism, 
masculine-driven techno-utopias, etc.
- Neoliberalism, the rise of far-right ideologies and interest groups: 
conservative narratives, right-wing populism, the making of neoliberal 
knowledge, the links between the rise of the far-right and climate 
change denial, etc.
- Other topics connected to interest groups and climate inaction: 
climate justice, climate change activism, environmental advocacy, the 
sociology of climate change denial, animal ethics and advocacy, etc.

To be eligible for publication, manuscripts must be submitted by 15th 
September 2021 through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform on the 
Ámbitos, Revista Internacional de Comunicación website: 
https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/Ambitos/about/submissions 
<https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/Ambitos/about/submissions>
Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish, Catalan or Portuguese.
Ámbitos is an open access journal and does not charge APC.
The special issue will be published in the 55th issue of Ámbitos, 
Revista Internacional de Comunicación, scheduled for publication in 
January 2022.
Any questions regarding this special issue can be addressed by e-mail to 
the following direction: joseantonio.moreno [at] upf.edu <http://upf.edu>

More info: https://bit.ly/2ViLzh0 <https://bit.ly/2ViLzh0>

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