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[Commlist] CFP for Special Issue on Antidemocratic Politics and Climate Communication
Thu Oct 10 22:23:33 GMT 2024
*CFP for Special Issue of the Journal /Environmental Communication/:
“Backlash, Borders, and Bunkers: Antidemocratic Politics and Climate
Change Communication” *
**
Special Issue Editor and Contact: Dr. Hanna E. Morris, University of
Toronto, (_hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca) <mailto:(hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)>_
Abstracts due: November 4, 2024
Full papers due for peer review: April 4, 2025
The climate journalist Amy Westervelt tweeted in August 2023 amid a
visible increase in the criminalization and policing of climate
activists: “It's troubling to watch the global dehumanization of climate
activists, who are often painted as annoying mosquitoes, spoiled brats,
or ‘terrorists.’” That same year, /The Guardian/ reported a striking
rise in the police crackdown on climate activists worldwide (Lakhani,
Gayle, & Taylor, 2023) while vigilantes in Germany brutalized climate
protesters (Singelnstein & Obens, 2023) and police in Atlanta, Georgia
killed a peaceful climate justice activist named Tortuguita who opposed
the construction of “Cop City” in the Weelaunee Forest (Gordon, 2024;
Lennard, 2023).
Within and across borders, climate activists are being cast as a threat
to national stability. News media and politicians from the so-called
“moderate” center to the far right are leveraging racist, misogynistic,
and ageist tropes to discursively transform young climate justice
activists into climate justice “warriors” who must be controlled and
contained for the sake of the nation (Morris, 2025). Far right violence
and demands to deport activists combine with nativist calls for tighter
borders and higher walls to keep “undesirables” out. At the same time,
increasing numbers of preppers are clinging to a libertarian lifeboat
ethics and envision a world of warring factions with limited resources
amid climatic and civilizational breakdown. With this apocalyptic vision
in tow, Silicon Valley billionaires are feverishly building bunkers in
New Zealand (e.g., Peter Thiel) and fantasize about colonies on Mars
(e.g., Elon Musk). Part of the draw of apocalypse bunkers and space
colonies for men like Thiel and Musk is their stated disdain for social
and climate justice “warriors” and the “woke” left that question,
critique, and impede their every desire and authority (i.e., democratic
oversight). In a future of bunkers and space pods, techno-libertarians
can live free and unencumbered (O’Connell, 2018).
This special issue of the journal /Environmental Communication/ is
motivated by the question of how different modes of climate
communication (e.g., news media, social media, blogs, digital
newsletters, film, photography, art, literature, podcasts, radio,
television, museum exhibitions, political speeches, etc.) either
legitimize and entrench antidemocratic politics (e.g., reactionary
backlash against climate activists, nativist demands for tighter
borders, libertarian dreams of bunkers and space colonies) or open up
the possibility for contestation and the consideration of alternative
visions for how to comprehensively respond to the complexities of
climate change via more inclusive, justice-oriented, and robustly
democratic decision-making processes. The editor of this special issue
(Dr. Hanna E. Morris, University of Toronto, (_hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)
<mailto:(hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)>_) invites papers from a variety of
critical methodologies, geographical contexts, and academic positions
(e.g., PhD students, emerging scholars, and senior scholars) that engage
with this question.
Possible topics include but are _not_ limited to:
* Increased policing of climate activists and the role of news media
in legitimizing this criminalization
* Climate activist-produced digital and social media that contest
derogatory mainstream media representations of their peers
* Popular film representations of climate change that fearmonger about
“mass climate migrations”
* Manifestos from ecofascists
* Cli-Fi texts that entrench, negotiate, and/or contest
petro-nationalism and petro-masculinity
* Online trolling, doxing, and hate speech against climate activists
on social media platforms
* Illustrative renderings of climate bunkers and/or space colonies
* Manifestos from ecomodernists and techno-libertarians
* Climate justice policy proposal documents and/or speeches from
policymakers and progressive thinktanks
* Art and/or literature that represent Indigenous Futurisms,
Afrofuturisms, and Radical Futurisms
* Popular writings on radical hope
* Activist-produced art, films, writings, podcasts, etc. that
represent what “just climate futures” and a “just transition” look
like and mean
* Indigenous media and decolonization
* Empirically grounded theoretical engagements with nationalism,
authoritarianism, ecofascism, techno-libertarianism, or
neoliberalism in relation to climate change communication and politics
Please email a short ~500 word paper abstract to the special issue
editor, Dr. Hanna E. Morris, by November 4, 2024:
(_hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca) <mailto:(hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)>_
Responses with an invitation to submit a full paper will be sent out on
or before December 4, 2024.
Full papers will be due for peer review by April 4, 2025.
The Special Issue is set to be published in May 2026.
No payment is required for authors who wish to publish in the EC Journal
References
Gordon, C. (2024). Criminalizing Care: Environmental Justice Under
Political and Police Repression. /Environmental Communication/,
/18/(1–2), 138–145.
Lakhani, N., Gayle, D., and Taylor, M. (2023, October 12). How
criminalization is being used to silence climate activists across the
world. /The Guardian/.
_https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/how-criminalisation-is-being-used-to-silence-climate-activists-across-the-world
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/how-criminalisation-is-being-used-to-silence-climate-activists-across-the-world>_
Lennard, N. (2023, April 20). Police shot Atlanta Cop City protestor 57
Times, autopsy finds. /The Intercept/.
_https://theintercept.com/2023/04/20/atlanta-cop-city-protester-autopsy/?ref=hottakepod.com
<https://theintercept.com/2023/04/20/atlanta-cop-city-protester-autopsy/?ref=hottakepod.com>_
Morris, H.E. (2025). /Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis,
Media, and Power/. Oxford University Press.
O’Connell, M. (2018, February 15). Why Silicon Valley billionaires are
prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand. /The Guardian/.
_https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand
<https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand>_
Singelnstein, T., and Obens, H. (2023, June 6). A climate of repression:
With vigilantism against climate activists mounting, is the German
state’s response proportionate? /Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
/_https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/50463/a-climate-of-repression
<https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/50463/a-climate-of-repression>_
Westervelt, A. [@amywestervelt] (2023, August 29). “It's troubling to
watch the global dehumanization of climate activists, who are often
painted as annoying mosquitoes, spoiled brats, or "terrorists”” [Tweet].
Twitter.
_https://twitter.com/amywestervelt/status/1696539450388750625?s=20
<https://twitter.com/amywestervelt/status/1696539450388750625?s=20>_
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*From:* Nico CARPENTIER <(nico.carpentier /at/ fsv.cuni.cz)>
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 9, 2024 7:00 AM
*To:* Hanna Morris <(hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)>
*Subject:* Re: CFP for Special Issue on Antidemocratic Politics and
Climate Communication
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On 08.10.2024 21:17, Hanna Morris wrote:
> Dear Dr. Carpentier,
>
> I have a CFP I'd like to share with the Commlist. Please see below.
> Thank you very much for your help and for organizing this very useful
> litserv!
>
> All the best,
> Hanna Morris
>
> ----
>
> *CFP for Special Issue of the Journal /Environmental Communication/:
> “Backlash, Borders, and Bunkers: Antidemocratic Politics and Climate
> Change Communication” *
> **
> Special Issue Editor and Contact: Dr. Hanna E. Morris, University of
> Toronto, (_hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca) <mailto:(hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)
<mailto:(hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)>>_
> Abstracts due: November 4, 2024
> Full papers due for peer review: April 4, 2025
> The climate journalist Amy Westervelt tweeted in August 2023 amid a
> visible increase in the criminalization and policing of climate
> activists: “It's troubling to watch the global dehumanization of climate
> activists, who are often painted as annoying mosquitoes, spoiled brats,
> or ‘terrorists.’” That same year, /The Guardian/ reported a striking
> rise in the police crackdown on climate activists worldwide (Lakhani,
> Gayle, & Taylor, 2023) while vigilantes in Germany brutalized climate
> protesters (Singelnstein & Obens, 2023) and police in Atlanta, Georgia
> killed a peaceful climate justice activist named Tortuguita who opposed
> the construction of “Cop City” in the Weelaunee Forest (Gordon, 2024;
> Lennard, 2023).
> Within and across borders, climate activists are being cast as a threat
> to national stability. News media and politicians from the so-called
> “moderate” center to the far right are leveraging racist, misogynistic,
> and ageist tropes to discursively transform young climate justice
> activists into climate justice “warriors” who must be controlled and
> contained for the sake of the nation (Morris, 2025). Far right violence
> and demands to deport activists combine with nativist calls for tighter
> borders and higher walls to keep “undesirables” out. At the same time,
> increasing numbers of preppers are clinging to a libertarian lifeboat
> ethics and envision a world of warring factions with limited resources
> amid climatic and civilizational breakdown. With this apocalyptic vision
> in tow, Silicon Valley billionaires are feverishly building bunkers in
> New Zealand (e.g., Peter Thiel) and fantasize about colonies on Mars
> (e.g., Elon Musk). Part of the draw of apocalypse bunkers and space
> colonies for men like Thiel and Musk is their stated disdain for social
> and climate justice “warriors” and the “woke” left that question,
> critique, and impede their every desire and authority (i.e., democratic
> oversight). In a future of bunkers and space pods, techno-libertarians
> can live free and unencumbered (O’Connell, 2018).
> This special issue of the journal /Environmental Communication/ is
> motivated by the question of how different modes of climate
> communication (e.g., news media, social media, blogs, digital
> newsletters, film, photography, art, literature, podcasts, radio,
> television, museum exhibitions, political speeches, etc.) either
> legitimize and entrench antidemocratic politics (e.g., reactionary
> backlash against climate activists, nativist demands for tighter
> borders, libertarian dreams of bunkers and space colonies) or open up
> the possibility for contestation and the consideration of alternative
> visions for how to comprehensively respond to the complexities of
> climate change via more inclusive, justice-oriented, and robustly
> democratic decision-making processes. The editor of this special issue
> (Dr. Hanna E. Morris, University of Toronto, (_hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)
> <mailto:(hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)>_
<mailto:(hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)>_>) invites papers from a variety of
> critical methodologies, geographical contexts, and academic positions
> (e.g., PhD students, emerging scholars, and senior scholars) that engage
> with this question.
> Possible topics include but are _not_ limited to:
>
> * Increased policing of climate activists and the role of news media
> in legitimizing this criminalization
> * Climate activist-produced digital and social media that contest
> derogatory mainstream media representations of their peers
> * Popular film representations of climate change that fearmonger about
> “mass climate migrations”
> * Manifestos from ecofascists
> * Cli-Fi texts that entrench, negotiate, and/or contest petro-
> nationalism and petro-masculinity
> * Online trolling, doxing, and hate speech against climate activists
> on social media platforms
> * Illustrative renderings of climate bunkers and/or space colonies
> * Manifestos from ecomodernists and techno-libertarians
> * Climate justice policy proposal documents and/or speeches from
> policymakers and progressive thinktanks
> * Art and/or literature that represent Indigenous Futurisms,
> Afrofuturisms, and Radical Futurisms
> * Popular writings on radical hope
> * Activist-produced art, films, writings, podcasts, etc. that
> represent what “just climate futures” and a “just transition” look
> like and mean
> * Indigenous media and decolonization
> * Empirically grounded theoretical engagements with nationalism,
> authoritarianism, ecofascism, techno-libertarianism, or
> neoliberalism in relation to climate change communication and
politics
>
> Please email a short ~500 word paper abstract to the special issue
> editor, Dr. Hanna E. Morris, by November 4, 2024:
> (_hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca) <mailto:(hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)
<mailto:(hanna.morris /at/ utoronto.ca)>>_
> Responses with an invitation to submit a full paper will be sent out on
> or before December 4, 2024.
> Full papers will be due for peer review by April 4, 2025.
> The Special Issue is set to be published in May 2026.
> References
> Gordon, C. (2024). Criminalizing Care: Environmental Justice Under
> Political and Police
> Repression. /Environmental Communication/, /18/(1–2), 138–145.
> Lakhani, N., Gayle, D., and Taylor, M. (2023, October 12). How
> criminalization is being used to silence climate activists across the
> world. /The Guardian/. _https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/
> oct/12/how-criminalisation-is-being-used-to-silence-climate-activists-
> across-the-world <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/
> how-criminalisation-is-being-used-to-silence-climate-activists-across-
> the-world>_
> Lennard, N. (2023, April 20). Police shot Atlanta Cop City protestor 57
> Times, autopsy finds. /The Intercept/. _https://
> theintercept.com/2023/04/20/atlanta-cop-city-protester-autopsy/?
> ref=hottakepod.com <https://theintercept.com/2023/04/20/atlanta-cop-
> city-protester-autopsy/?ref=hottakepod.com>_
> Morris, H.E. (2025). /Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis,
> Media, and Power/. Oxford University Press.
> O’Connell, M. (2018, February 15). Why Silicon Valley billionaires are
> prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand. /The Guardian/. _https://
>
www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-
<http://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires->
> are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand <https://
>
www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-
<http://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires->
> are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand>_
> Singelnstein, T., and Obens, H. (2023, June 6). A climate of repression:
> With vigilantism against climate activists mounting, is the German
> state’s response proportionate? /Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. /_https://
> www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/50463/a-climate-of-repression
<http://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/50463/a-climate-of-repression> <https://
> www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/50463/a-climate-of-repression>_
<http://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/50463/a-climate-of-repression>_>
> Westervelt, A. [@amywestervelt] (2023, August 29). “It's troubling to
> watch the global dehumanization of climate activists, who are often
> painted as annoying mosquitoes, spoiled brats, or "terrorists”” [Tweet].
> Twitter. _https://twitter.com/amywestervelt/status/1696539450388750625?
> s=20
<https://twitter.com/amywestervelt/status/1696539450388750625?s=20
<https://twitter.com/amywestervelt/status/1696539450388750625?s=20>>_
>
>
>
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