[ecrea] New book: Climate Change and Post-Political Communication

*Climate Change and Post-Political Communication:
Media, Emotion & Environmental Advocacy
London, Routledge, 2018*
ISBN: 9781138777507

https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Change-and-Post-Political-Communication-Media-Emotion-and-Environmental/Hammond/p/book/9781138777507

For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push 
climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage 
media attention to the issue. By the first decade of the twenty-first 
century, it appeared that their efforts had been spectacularly 
successful. Yet just at the moment when the campaigners’ goals were 
being achieved, it seemed that the idea of getting the issue into 
mainstream discussion had been mistaken all along; that the 
consensus-building approach produced little or no meaningful action. 
That is the problem of climate change as a ‘post-political’ issue, which 
is the subject of this book.

Examining how climate change is communicated in politics, news media and 
celebrity culture, Climate Change and Post-Political Communication 
explores how the issue has been taken up by elites as potentially 
offering a sense of purpose or mission in the absence of political 
visions of the future, and considers the ways in which it provides a 
focus for much broader anxieties about a loss of modernist political 
agency and meaning. Drawing on a wide range of literature and case 
studies, and taking a critical and contextual approach to the analysis 
of climate change communication, this book will be a valuable resource 
for students and scholars of environmental studies, communication 
studies, and media and film studies.

http://philhammond.info/climate-change/


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