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Environmental News in South America

Conflict, Crisis and Contestation

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Utilizes theoretical perspectives from media studies and political ecology to understand news content production
  • Fills a gap in literature examining South American news production of environmental content
  • Brings to light the complexities found in content analyses done within different socio-political and cultural environments

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. News, Conflict and Environment as Social Constructions

    • Juliet Pinto, Paola Prado, J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz
    Pages 23-54
  3. Ecuador and the Chevron Case: Spinning Risk, Hazard and Reward

    • Juliet Pinto, Paola Prado, J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz
    Pages 55-80
  4. Brazil and the Belo Monte Dam: “The Amazon Is Ours”

    • Juliet Pinto, Paola Prado, J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz
    Pages 81-114
  5. Chile’s Pascua Lama: Where Water Is Worth More than Gold

    • Juliet Pinto, Paola Prado, J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz
    Pages 115-141
  6. Mediated Neo-extractivism and National Development

    • Juliet Pinto, Paola Prado, J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz
    Pages 143-163
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 165-168

About this book

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 industrializednations for economic benefit and social development strategies. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Communication + Journalism, Florida International University, North Miami, USA

    Juliet Pinto

  • Communications Dept, Roger Williams University, Bristol, USA

    Paola Prado

  • Dept. Politics & International Relations, Roger Williams University, Bristol, USA

    J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz

About the authors

Juliet Pinto is Associate Professor of Journalism and Broadcasting in the School of Communication and Journalism at Florida International University, USA.

Paola Prado is Associate Professor of Journalism and Digital Media in the Communication Department at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA.

Alejandro Tirado is Researcher at the Latino Policy Institute and Instructor at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA.



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Softcover Book USD 64.99
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