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Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Culture : One Planet, One Humanity, and the Media.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ecocritical Theory and Practice SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498528894
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and CultureDDC classification:
  • 304.2
LOC classification:
  • GF41.I55 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: One Planet, One Humanity, and the Media -- Section I Imagining a Better Future for Humanity -- Chapter 1 Envisioning a Simple One Planet-One Humanity Utopia Exploring: John Lennon's "Imagine" -- Chapter 2 A Generic Cosmopolitanism Is Not an Alternative to the Damages of Globalization -- Chapter 3 The United Nations "Alliance of Civilizations": Reality or Utopia? -- Chapter 4 Utopian Hackers and the Drive to Change the World -- Section II Media, Humanity, and the Common Good -- Chapter 5 A Hypothesis about the Role of Gateopener in the Westley-MacLean Model -- Chapter 6 Occupy the Media: Towards a Communication System for the 99 Percent -- Chapter 7 Public Radio and Public Access: Applying HD Radio Technology to a New Form of Broadcast Localism -- Chapter 8 The Press and the Politics of Genocide -- Chapter 9 Solidarity Know-How in Local Development: Translating Civil Virtues into Practice -- Chapter 10 The Communicative Dimension in a Globalized World and the Globalization of Social Rights -- Section III Environmental Science and the Media -- Chapter 11 Lost in Translation?: Public Perceptions and Mass Media Coverage of Climate Change Risks -- Chapter 12 Viable Scientific Communication and the Mass Media -- Chapter 13 The 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Silent Spring:An Opportunity Lost -- Chapter 14 Pope Francis on the Ecological Crisis: Its Nature, Causes, and Urgency -- Section IV Ecocriticism and the Popular Imagination -- Chapter 15 Windmills and Dandelions and Polar Bears, Oh My!: Contested Icons of Environmental and Anti-Environmental Rhetoric -- Chapter 16 Environmental Perceptions of College Students -- Chapter 17 Good Company?: The Non-Ephemeral Catalog as Intervention.
Chapter 18 Post-Apocalyptic Storytelling as Global Society's Environmental Unconscious -- Chapter 19 Nature and ArtSeeing Beauty amidst the Ruins -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: This collection asks and answers a basic question: what is the relationship between humanitarian and environmental issues, and how are these portrayed in the media? The essays examine this question from a variety of academic viewpoints and argue that although the interests of planet and people are often seen in opposition, they are, in reality, symbiotic.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: One Planet, One Humanity, and the Media -- Section I Imagining a Better Future for Humanity -- Chapter 1 Envisioning a Simple One Planet-One Humanity Utopia Exploring: John Lennon's "Imagine" -- Chapter 2 A Generic Cosmopolitanism Is Not an Alternative to the Damages of Globalization -- Chapter 3 The United Nations "Alliance of Civilizations": Reality or Utopia? -- Chapter 4 Utopian Hackers and the Drive to Change the World -- Section II Media, Humanity, and the Common Good -- Chapter 5 A Hypothesis about the Role of Gateopener in the Westley-MacLean Model -- Chapter 6 Occupy the Media: Towards a Communication System for the 99 Percent -- Chapter 7 Public Radio and Public Access: Applying HD Radio Technology to a New Form of Broadcast Localism -- Chapter 8 The Press and the Politics of Genocide -- Chapter 9 Solidarity Know-How in Local Development: Translating Civil Virtues into Practice -- Chapter 10 The Communicative Dimension in a Globalized World and the Globalization of Social Rights -- Section III Environmental Science and the Media -- Chapter 11 Lost in Translation?: Public Perceptions and Mass Media Coverage of Climate Change Risks -- Chapter 12 Viable Scientific Communication and the Mass Media -- Chapter 13 The 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Silent Spring:An Opportunity Lost -- Chapter 14 Pope Francis on the Ecological Crisis: Its Nature, Causes, and Urgency -- Section IV Ecocriticism and the Popular Imagination -- Chapter 15 Windmills and Dandelions and Polar Bears, Oh My!: Contested Icons of Environmental and Anti-Environmental Rhetoric -- Chapter 16 Environmental Perceptions of College Students -- Chapter 17 Good Company?: The Non-Ephemeral Catalog as Intervention.

Chapter 18 Post-Apocalyptic Storytelling as Global Society's Environmental Unconscious -- Chapter 19 Nature and ArtSeeing Beauty amidst the Ruins -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This collection asks and answers a basic question: what is the relationship between humanitarian and environmental issues, and how are these portrayed in the media? The essays examine this question from a variety of academic viewpoints and argue that although the interests of planet and people are often seen in opposition, they are, in reality, symbiotic.

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