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Environmental News in South America: Conflict, Crisis and Contestation

Environmental News in South America: Conflict, Crisis and Contestation

Pinto, Juliet
Tirado-Alcaraz, J. Alejandro
Prado, Paola

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 113747498X
ISBN13: 9781137474988
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 28 2017
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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 environmental contestation in a region that is simultaneously vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and yet has become once again dependent on commodity exportation to industrializing and industrialized nations for economic benefit and social development strategies.

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