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Phaedra Pezzullo
University of Colorado, Boulder, Communication, Faculty Member
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The Global South (or Low-Income Countries, LICs) long has been advocating for the establishment of a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund to address vulnerability and limited adaptation capacity in response to disasters exacerbated by climate... more
The Global South (or Low-Income Countries, LICs) long has been
advocating for the establishment of a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund to
address vulnerability and limited adaptation capacity in response to
disasters exacerbated by climate injustices, which finally gained
international recognition of late. This essay focuses on two key
moments that led to this landmark agreement: at COP19, when
Philippines climate delegate Naderev “Yeb” Saño advocated for L&D in
the wake of Typhoon Haiyan; and during COP27, when global leaders
invoked the historic floods in Pakistan as the agreement was reached.
We consider how these two disasters were invoked during the passing
of L&D in ways that critically interrupted the prevailing spiral of silence
to articulate “disasters” to “climate” and “climate” to “justice” in the
global climate policy arena. These discourses reveal, then, part of the
expanding imaginary emerging to address human agency and
inequities in an age of the climate disasters, including the idea of a
“global majority.”
advocating for the establishment of a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund to
address vulnerability and limited adaptation capacity in response to
disasters exacerbated by climate injustices, which finally gained
international recognition of late. This essay focuses on two key
moments that led to this landmark agreement: at COP19, when
Philippines climate delegate Naderev “Yeb” Saño advocated for L&D in
the wake of Typhoon Haiyan; and during COP27, when global leaders
invoked the historic floods in Pakistan as the agreement was reached.
We consider how these two disasters were invoked during the passing
of L&D in ways that critically interrupted the prevailing spiral of silence
to articulate “disasters” to “climate” and “climate” to “justice” in the
global climate policy arena. These discourses reveal, then, part of the
expanding imaginary emerging to address human agency and
inequities in an age of the climate disasters, including the idea of a
“global majority.”
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1. Overture: The Most Complicated Word - Phaedra C. Pezzullo 2. Speculative Visions and Imaginary Meals: Food and the Environment in (Post-Apocalyptic) Science Fiction Films - Jean. P. Retzinger 3. Tourism, Race and the State of Nature:... more
1. Overture: The Most Complicated Word - Phaedra C. Pezzullo 2. Speculative Visions and Imaginary Meals: Food and the Environment in (Post-Apocalyptic) Science Fiction Films - Jean. P. Retzinger 3. Tourism, Race and the State of Nature: On the Bio-Poetics of Government - Margaret Werry 4. Forest, Flows and Identities in Finland's Information Society - Eeva Berglund 5. Cat and Mouse: Iconographics of Nature and Desire - Jody Berland 6. Queering Ecocultural Studies - Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands 7. Resisting Ecocultural Studies - Jennifer Daryl Slack 8. From Water Crisis to Water Culture - Dr. Vandana Shiva, Independent Scholar and Activist, An Interview by Andy Opel
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Central to the study of communication and cultural studies is the relationship between nature and culture, not as a rigid dichotomy, but as elements that are coconstituted by each other materially and symbolically. With the rise of... more
Central to the study of communication and cultural studies is the relationship between nature and culture, not as a rigid dichotomy, but as elements that are coconstituted by each other materially and symbolically. With the rise of ecological awareness, the past three decades has fostered an increase in scholarship addressing environmental matters explicitly, as well as professional organizations mobilizing around the ways this perspective has shaped research, teaching, and praxis. Communication scholars from a range of perspectives have contributed to ongoing conversations about “environment” as a keyword, including at least these seven general approaches: (1) environmental personal identity and interpersonal relationships; (2) environmental organizational communication studies; (3) science, technology, and health communication; (4) public participation in environmental decision-making; (5) green applied media and arts; (6) environmental mass media studies; and (7) environmental rhetoric and cultural studies. Given this rich and expanding disciplinary terrain, identifying the heart of this research is a complicated task. Environmental communication is the study and practice of pragmatic and constitutive modes of expression that define and trouble our ecological relationships within the world. It has been founded as a crisis discipline, one dedicated to addressing some of the greatest challenges of our times and to foregrounding the ethical implications of this orientation. In this article, environmental communication also is characterized fundamentally as a care discipline, one devoted to unearthing human and nonhuman interconnections, interdependence, biodiversity, and system limits. In the United States, environmental discourse has articulated dominant, residual, and emergent attitudes, values, and practices related to—though not limited to—wilderness, preservation, conservation, public health, environmental justice, sustainability, climate science, and resilience. Despite historical reluctance, future possibilities for scholarship on the environment are exigent and expanding, including communication-based research on climate justice, as well as digital environmental communication and archives.
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1. Overture: The Most Complicated Word - Phaedra C. Pezzullo 2. Speculative Visions and Imaginary Meals: Food and the Environment in (Post-Apocalyptic) Science Fiction Films - Jean. P. Retzinger 3. Tourism, Race and the State of Nature:... more
1. Overture: The Most Complicated Word - Phaedra C. Pezzullo 2. Speculative Visions and Imaginary Meals: Food and the Environment in (Post-Apocalyptic) Science Fiction Films - Jean. P. Retzinger 3. Tourism, Race and the State of Nature: On the Bio-Poetics of Government - Margaret Werry 4. Forest, Flows and Identities in Finland's Information Society - Eeva Berglund 5. Cat and Mouse: Iconographics of Nature and Desire - Jody Berland 6. Queering Ecocultural Studies - Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands 7. Resisting Ecocultural Studies - Jennifer Daryl Slack 8. From Water Crisis to Water Culture - Dr. Vandana Shiva, Independent Scholar and Activist, An Interview by Andy Opel
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In Stephanie Foote and Elizabeth Mazzolini (Eds.), Histories of the Dust Heap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012, pp. 119-146.
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Although some have begun to study the relationships between national disasters and commercial tourism, practices of touring in the aftermath of disasters warrant closer examination. Marita Sturken argues tourists of disaster provide a... more
Although some have begun to study the relationships between national disasters and commercial tourism, practices of touring in the aftermath of disasters warrant closer examination. Marita Sturken argues tourists of disaster provide a metaphor for US contemporary culture, epitomizing an attitude that is superficial, distanced, and uncritical. To identify the hopeful possibilities that we can recuperate from literal practices of touring disaster, I turn to the US city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005 to explore the uses of tours as: first responses, lobbying tools, field reports, organizing tactics, and publicity. To contextualize these acts, I engage public discourses of ‘‘Katrina fatigue’ ’ and the politics of remembering as it relates to post-Katrina tours. From secondary research and participant observation, I then illustrate how non-commercial and commercial tourist practices after a disaster can offer compelling opportunities for rebuilding, more sus...
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“Afterword: Decentralizing and Regenerating the Field,” In Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard, Eds., Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method. Penn State University Press, 2016, pp. 177-188.
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ABSTRACT Environmental themes and thought have transformed the paths rhetorical criticism travels; nevertheless, environmental matters remain marginalized in most maps of the field. This essay establishes this tension between the growing... more
ABSTRACT Environmental themes and thought have transformed the paths rhetorical criticism travels; nevertheless, environmental matters remain marginalized in most maps of the field. This essay establishes this tension between the growing institutionalization and popularity of environmental criticism and the ongoing undervaluing of these contributions in most accounts of the state of rhetorical criticism. Then, the author illustrates how this work has enabled rich extensions of ongoing conversations about canonical tropes of the field, including: metacritical; close textual analysis; dramatistic criticism; narrative; metaphoric; social movement; genre; mythic; critical rhetoric; and publics. Finally, the author invites readers to consider how environmental matters have contributed to the ways we navigate rhetorical criticism, as well as how this dimension of the field provides vital and diverse paths worth traveling for years to come.
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Introduction + Chapter 3 + Chapter 4. • Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, Urban Communication Foundation, 2010 • James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric/Public Address,... more
Introduction + Chapter 3 + Chapter 4. • Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, Urban Communication Foundation, 2010 • James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric/Public Address, National Communication Association (NCA), 2007 • Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication, NCA, 2007 • Book of the Year Award for the Critical and Cultural Studies Division, NCA, 2007
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Despite their popularity and significance, there is a paucity of communication scholarship on boycotts and buycotts. This absence may be due to an erroneous assumption that such tactics are merely economic, as well as to a hesitancy to... more
Despite their popularity and significance, there is a paucity of communication scholarship on boycotts and buycotts. This absence may be due to an erroneous assumption that such tactics are merely economic, as well as to a hesitancy to critique consumption. This essay focuses on three contemporary US-based exemplars that address global ecological crises: the Rainforest Action Network boycott of Mitsubishi; the Farm Labor Organizing Committee boycott of Mt. Olive Pickle Company; and the Carrotmob buycott of a liquor store. The circuit of culture framework and a radically contextual approach provide a more nuanced analysis of consumer-based advocacy campaigns.
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Care is having a moment. If neoliberalism is the zeitgeist of contemporary politics – championing hierarchies of capitalist individualism, hypermasculine competition, xenophobic border policing, wh...
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Page 1. http://oae.sagepub.com/ Organization & Environment http://oae.sagepub.com/content/ 19/4/539 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/1086026606294967 2006 19: 539 Organization Environment... more
Page 1. http://oae.sagepub.com/ Organization & Environment http://oae.sagepub.com/content/ 19/4/539 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/1086026606294967 2006 19: 539 Organization Environment Phaedra C. Pezzullo Pollution ...
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Energy democracy hopes to foster community engagement and participation in shaping our transition from fossil fuels to a renewable energy-based economy. These considerations result from critiques by environmental justice, climate justice,... more
Energy democracy hopes to foster community engagement and participation in shaping our transition from fossil fuels to a renewable energy-based economy. These considerations result from critiques by environmental justice, climate justice, and just transition advocates. Although many are sympathetic to energy democracy ideals, climate goals often are articulated in math terms. This essay defines the aforementioned key terms and asks: what are the limitations and possibilities of engaging publics when climate action solely is articulated in numbers? A compelling case study is the City of Boulder – recognized as a global leader in climate science and a national leader in innovative environmental planning. This essay shares work from 2016, when the City shared a climate action plan for public feedback, supported several public participation events, and passed climate action legislation goals. We argue a just transition and energy democracy ideals are hindered if we reduce climate goals ...
At this critical crossroad of climate crisis, environmental advocates have turned to projection mapping (also known as ‘guerrilla projections’, ‘digital graffiti’, etc.) to foster an ethic of care. This article focuses on two 2015... more
At this critical crossroad of climate crisis, environmental advocates have turned to projection mapping (also known as ‘guerrilla projections’, ‘digital graffiti’, etc.) to foster an ethic of care. This article focuses on two 2015 projection mapping events: one in Vatican City and the other in Paris. Although imperfect, projection mapping may orient attention, transform locations into public spaces for political engagement and cultivate collective imaginaries. By rethinking environmental media between climate crisis and care, we may define the agenda of this journal as not only centred on critique but also regenerating creative communication for a just and vibrant future.
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Central to the study of communication and cultural studies is the relationship between nature and culture, not as a rigid dichotomy, but as elements that are coconstituted by each other materially and symbolically. With the rise of... more
Central to the study of communication and cultural studies is the relationship between nature and culture, not as a rigid dichotomy, but as elements that are coconstituted by each other materially and symbolically. With the rise of ecological awareness, the past three decades has fostered an increase in scholarship addressing environmental matters explicitly, as well as professional organizations mobilizing around the ways this perspective has shaped research, teaching, and praxis. Communication scholars from a range of perspectives have contributed to ongoing conversations about “environment” as a keyword, including at least these seven general approaches: (1) environmental personal identity and interpersonal relationships; (2) environmental organizational communication studies; (3) science, technology, and health communication; (4) public participation in environmental decision-making; (5) green applied media and arts; (6) environmental mass media studies; and (7) environmental rh...
This book examines how noncommercial tours can serve as embodied rhetorics of resistance aimed at mobilizing public sentiment and dissent against material and symbolic toxic patterns, drawing from examples across the United States and its... more
This book examines how noncommercial tours can serve as embodied rhetorics of resistance aimed at mobilizing public sentiment and dissent against material and symbolic toxic patterns, drawing from examples across the United States and its borders in the late twentieth and early ...
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Special issue on “Innovations in Research Methods and Analyses.”
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Page 1. Text and Performance Quarterly Vol. 23, No. 3, July 2003, pp. 226252 Touring Cancer Alley, Louisiana: Performances of Community and Memory for Environmental Justice Phaedra C. Pezzullo The region between ...
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Livre: Environmental justice and environmentalism the social justice challenge to the environmental movement (hardback) SANDLER Ronald, PEZZULLO Phaedra C.
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Page 1. Western Journal of Communication, 65(1) (Winter 2001), 1-25 Performing Critical Interruptions: Stories, Rhetorical Invention, and the Environmental Justice Movement Phaedra C. Pezzullo Warren County, NC, is the birthplace of the... more
Page 1. Western Journal of Communication, 65(1) (Winter 2001), 1-25 Performing Critical Interruptions: Stories, Rhetorical Invention, and the Environmental Justice Movement Phaedra C. Pezzullo Warren County, NC, is the birthplace of the environmental justice movement. ...
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Page 1. http://tou.sagepub.com/ Tourist Studies http://tou.sagepub.com/content/9/ 1/23 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/ 1468797609360591 2009 9: 23 Tourist Studies Phaedra C. Pezzullo New ...
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On cultural studies & the environment. An Introduction to a Special Issue of the journal Cultural Studies, which Routledge then published as a book.
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Although the environmental movement and the environmental justice movement would seem to be natural allies, their relationship over the years has often been characterized by conflict and division. The environmental justice movement has... more
Although the environmental movement and the environmental justice movement would seem to be natural allies, their relationship over the years has often been characterized by conflict and division. The environmental justice movement has charged the mainstream environmental movement with racism and elitism and has criticized its activist agenda on the grounds that it values wilderness over people. Environmental justice advocates have called upon environmental organizations to act on environmental injustice and address racism and classism in their own hiring and organizational practices, lobbying agenda, and political platforms. This book examines the current relationship between the two movements in both conceptual and practical terms and explores the possibilities for future collaboration.In ten original essays, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider such topics as the relationship between the two movements’ ethical commitments and activist goals, instances of successful cooperation in U.S. contexts, and the challenges posed to both movements by globalization and climate change. They examine the possibility and desirability of one unified movement as opposed to two complementary ones by means of analyses and case studies; these include a story of asbestos hazards that begins in a Montana mine and ends with the release of asbestos insulation into the air of Manhattan after the collapse of the World Trade Center. This book, part of a necessary rethinking of the relationship between the two movements, shows that effective, mutually beneficial alliances can advance the missions of both. Contributors: Kim Allen, J. Robert Cox, Vinci Daro, Kevin DeLuca, Giovanna Di Chiro, Daniel Faber, Dorothy Holland, Dale Jamieson, M. Nils Peterson, Markus John Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, Phaedra C. Pezzullo, J. Timmons Roberts, Ronald Sandler, Steve Schwarze, and Peter Wenz.
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"The edited collection Green Communication and China has burst onto the scene, extending environmental scholarship on China and China-US relations, forging methodologies necessary for meaningful global environmental change, and enriching... more
"The edited collection Green Communication and China has burst onto the scene, extending environmental scholarship on China and China-US relations, forging methodologies necessary for meaningful global environmental change, and enriching the psyche. From the historical to contemporary, from leisure practices to labor, and from policy-making to art, this volume inaugurates environmental communication relating to China, foregrounding Chinese intelligentsia. The multimodal and multinational and transnational project helps move us from importing theories to transforming them and rendering national environmental, health, animal, and policy concerns of global import. If you care about the planet and what we can do and say to save it, start with this courageous collection of essays." —Kent A. Ono, Professor of Communication, University of Utah
"A must-read for those interested in environmental issues in the globalized China. This collection eloquently weaves influential forces from various sectors to examine how the environment is engaged from the Chinese cultural lens. It includes a wide array of topics ranging from tourism and environmental policies, to responses to governmental practices from nonprofit organizations and civic groups. A groundbreaking resource for researchers and practitioners working in the field of environmental communication."—Hsin-I Cheng, Associate Professor of Communication, Santa Clara University
"A must-read for those interested in environmental issues in the globalized China. This collection eloquently weaves influential forces from various sectors to examine how the environment is engaged from the Chinese cultural lens. It includes a wide array of topics ranging from tourism and environmental policies, to responses to governmental practices from nonprofit organizations and civic groups. A groundbreaking resource for researchers and practitioners working in the field of environmental communication."—Hsin-I Cheng, Associate Professor of Communication, Santa Clara University
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In Stephanie Foote and Elizabeth Mazzolini (Eds.), Histories of the Dust Heap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012, pp. 119-146.
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“Afterword: Decentralizing and Regenerating the Field,” In Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard, Eds., Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method. Penn State University Press, 2016, pp. 177-188.
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“Afterword: Traveling Worlds to Engage Rhetoric’s Perennial Questions,” (Coauthor: Gerard A. Hauser). In Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Eds., Field Rhetoric: Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion.... more
“Afterword: Traveling Worlds to Engage Rhetoric’s Perennial Questions,” (Coauthor: Gerard A. Hauser). In Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Eds., Field Rhetoric: Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion. University of Alabama Press, 2018, pp. 253-263.
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Response to David Cisneros, Public Address Conference 2016
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NOTE: The press made "Indigenous" lower case throughout the published chapter; this PDF has the correct capital "I" throughout.
Chapter focuses on a food justice and gentrification tour of Denver, Colorado.
Chapter focuses on a food justice and gentrification tour of Denver, Colorado.