Green Communication and China: On Crisis, Care, and Global Futures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611863673)

How does China speak for nature? How are the pollution and climate change crises being addressed? What are the possibilities and limitations of mobilizing publics to care about the environment through new media, tourism, and government policy? Green Communication and China is the first volume to identify the importance of studying environmental communication in, about, and with China, a rising global environmental leader whose ecological and political controversies often make international headlines. Organized into three sections on communicating crisis, communicating care, and environmental futurity, these essays span multimodal communication practices and methods in green public culture and address topics ranging from The North Face advertisements to NGO advocacy to global governmental policy. The volume showcases the work of leading scholars, all of them deeply intimate with China, in disciplines ranging from cultural studies and rhetoric to public opinion polling, discourse analysis, ethnic studies, and sociology. These complex projects engage transnational and national politics, ecological and economic challenges, media saturation, and government control. Holding these tensions together without glossing over differences, Green Communication and China will inform new agendas for environmental communication in China, the United States, and beyond.

Author: Jingfang Liu
ISBN-10: 1611863678
ISBN-13: 9781611863673
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2020
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2021