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Global Trade and Mediatised Environmental Protest

The View From Here

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Authors:
  1. Libby Lester

    1. Media School, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

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  • Explores how environmental protest is evolving alongside profound change to communication media
  • Extends the concept of ‘mediatised environmental conflict’ to transnational contexts
  • Examines how corporations, NGOs, media, governments and local communities respond to increasing trade and market pressures

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-20

  3. Counting Protest

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    Pages 21-44

  4. Protest and Publics

    • Libby Lester
    Pages 45-69

  5. The Spectacle of the Reef

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    Pages 71-95

  6. Industrialising the Forests and the Fishes

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    Pages 97-121

  7. The Information Trade

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    Pages 123-150

  8. Conclusion

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    Pages 151-164

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 165-177
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About this book

As more governments, companies and individuals scan the globe for access to primary resources such as minerals and timber, food, power and water, and destinations for work, holidays and homes, pressures on places and communities grow. At the same time, global environmental risks – most notably, climate change – produce new networks and unfamiliar forms of politics. Communication media are integral to this change. This book explores how geographically diverse groups and individuals interact in and through media to influence the negotiations and decisions affecting often distant landscapes and communities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Australia-Asia region, the book includes case studies on the environmental protests that follow the international flow of people and resources, including timber, fish, coal, water and tourism. It asks how ‘communities of concern’ are evoked, which transcend local places and national boundaries.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Media School, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

    Libby Lester

About the author

Libby Lester is Professor of Media at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She has worked as a journalist in Australia and Asia, and written extensively on environmental media and communications.

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