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Environmental News in South America
Pinto, Juliet; Prado, Paola
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Description for Environmental News in South America
hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Num Pages: 168 pages, 28 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFD; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies, creating not only vulnerabilities to global commodity boom and bust pricing cycles, but also to conflict regarding environmental and cultural degradation from extraction activities. Environmental contestations among indigenous peoples, environmental and social NGOs, state actors, and extraction industries receive media attention, but how these disputes are covered has implications for understandings of media performance in democratizing nations. The authors examine three case studies of ... Read more
Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies, creating not only vulnerabilities to global commodity boom and bust pricing cycles, but also to conflict regarding environmental and cultural degradation from extraction activities. Environmental contestations among indigenous peoples, environmental and social NGOs, state actors, and extraction industries receive media attention, but how these disputes are covered has implications for understandings of media performance in democratizing nations. The authors examine three case studies of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137474988
SKU
V9781137474988
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Ref
99-15
About Pinto, Juliet; Prado, Paola
Juliet Pinto is Associate Professor of Journalism and Broadcasting in the School of Communication and Journalism at Florida International University, USA. Paola Prado is Associate Professor of Journalism and Digital Media in the Communication Department at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA. Alejandro Tirado is Researcher at the Latino Policy Institute and Instructor at Roger Williams University, Rhode ... Read more
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