Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care Volume 4 Pezzullo Phaedra C.
Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care Volume 4 Pezzullo Phaedra C. Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond "hot take" or straw man…
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Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care Volume 4 Pezzullo Phaedra C.
Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond "hot take" or straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics, mobilized around plastics, reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change today. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound.
Pezzullo engages advocacy campaigns, public controversies, and policies through cogent analysis and interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the US, and Vietnam. With attention to both on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. She argues that plastics have become an articulator of crisis--an entry point into the contested contemporary environmental politics of carbon-heavy masculinity, carceral policies, planetary fatalism, eco-ableism, greenwashing, marine life endangerment, pollution