Environment, Politics and Activism The Role of Media [Hardcover]

This bookexamines the role of the media in environmental politics and activism in the 21^stcentury. It highlights how politics is mediated in myriad ways through newspapers and news channels, through mobile telephony and through social networking sites. Further, it shows how the media creates and influences relevant discourses, builds campaigns and awareness, and adopts and discards issues.

With a range of perspectives on issues of environmental justice and equity, the volume scrutinizes how the media discourse on environment shapes our politics, and the role of international politics, finance, youth, newspapers, magazines and 24-hour television.

Bringing together academics, activists and media persons, this highly topical book will serve as significant reading for researchers and scholars of development studies and media studies, as well as policymakers, NGOs and environmental campaigners.

Introduction Somnath Batabyal1. The (Im)possibility of Critique in Developmental Debates Hanna Werner 2.Chasing the Long Tail of Climate Change Matti Pohjonen 3.Greenathon: Organizing the Social-Conscience of Post-Liberalization Urban India Smita Maitra4.New Delhis Times: Creating a Myth for a City Somnath Batabyal5.Banishing the Hyphen: The Rural-Urban Divide and Mainstream Television in India Pratap Pandey6.Politics of Body Spectacle: Old Movements Creating New(s) Stories Shalini Sharma7.A Coming Out Party for Indian Waste Pickers? Pondering the Dilemmas of Making Local Environmentalism Global Bharati Chaturvedi8.Not Politics of the Usual: Youth Environmental Movements Kartikeya Singh9.The Environmental Collective of Goi?s Youth Tiago E. G. Rodrl“¡