8 page essay due 4.13

Jan 15: Conceptual perspectives and the image • Stuart Ewen: (1999). All consuming images: The politics of style in contemporary culture.

Basic Books, pp. 24-40. • Susan Sontag (1977). “The Image World”. In On Photography. New York: Farrar Straus and

Giroux, pp. 153-180. • George Marshall, Don’t Even Think About It. pp. 105-120. • Recommended: Pezzullo et al, “Introduction”, “1. Studying/Practicing Environmental

Communication”, “2. Contested Meanings of Environment” and “3. Social-Symbolic Constructions of Environment” in Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere, pp. 1-66. [on reserve at library].

Jan 22: Consumerism and corporate public relations • Michael Maniates, “Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?” in Global

Environmental Politics 1.3 (2001): 31-52. • McCurdy, P. (2018). From the Natural to the Manmade Environment: The Shifting Advertising

Practices of Canada's Oil Sands Industry. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(1), 33-52.

• In class viewing: Years and Years. “It’s our fault”. Episode 6, season 1. • Recommended: Naomi Klein: “Stop trying to save the world all by yourself” in On Fire. pp.

129-136.

Jan 29: Independent field trip day. No lecture • Jonathan Safran Foer, We are the Weather. pp. 1-71. • Kate Aaronoff, “Things are Bleak! Jonathan Safran Foer’s quest for climate salvation”, The

Nation (Oct 29, 2019). https://www.thenation.com/article/jonathan-safran-foer-we-are-the- weather-climate-review/ (Links to an external site.)

• Feb 5: Indigenous perspectives independent field research presentations • Glen Coulthard (2013). “For our nations to live, capitalism must die.” Nations Rising.

Available online.  • Alfred, T. (2005). "First Words" in Wasase: Indigenous pathways of action and freedom. U of

T. P. 19-39. On Canvas. • Guest Speaker: Wendy Walker on #idlenomore, extraction and indigenous sovereignty. • Klein, Naomi. (2013). “Dancing the World into Being: A Conversation with Idle No More’s

Leanne Simpson.” Yes Magazine. Available online. • Recommended: “Leanne Simpson, (2014). “Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and

rebellious transformation.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 3(3). p. 1-25. On Canvas.

Feb 12: Canadian energy and communicating energy lifeworlds • Sara O’Shaughnessy and Goze Dogu, (2016). “The Gendered and Racialized Subject’s of

Alberta’s Oil” in First World Petro-Politics: The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta. University of Toronto Press, Canada. 263-296. Available online through SFU library.

• Barney, D. (2017). “Who we are and what we do: Canada as a pipeline nation.” Petrocultures: Oil, politics, culture, 78-119. Available online through SFU library and on Canvas.

• Alberta Narratives Project. https://albertanarrativesproject.ca/ (Links to an external site.)
 [Skim]. Available Online.

• Recommended: Cariou, W. 2017. “Aborignal” in Szeman, I et., al. (Eds.). (2017). Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment. Oxford University Press.

• Recommended: Dorow, Sara. 2015. “Gendering Energy Extraction in Fort McMurray” in Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada, edited by Meenal Shrivastava and Lorna Stefanick, 295-311. Available online through SFU library.

 

Feb 26: Nature in the news and environmental journalism • Gunster et al., (2018). “Why don’t you act like you believe it?: competing visions of climate

hypocrisy.” Frontiers in Communication. Online. • Jonathan Safran Foer, We are the Weather. pp. 73-101. • In class viewing: Merchants of Doubt • Recommended: George Marshall, Don’t Even Think About It. pp.1-25, pp. 46-55, and pp.

198-204.

March 4: Communicating science, risk and sustainable behaviour change. • P. Sol Hart and Lauren Feldman, “Threat without efficacy? Climate change on U.S. network

news,” Science Communication 36.3 (2014): 325-351. • George Marshall, Don’t Even Think About It. pp. 26-32,  pp 121-126, and pp. 138-154 . • Jonathan Safran Foer, We are the Weather. pp. 105-126. • David Wallace-Wells. “The Uninhabitable Earth.” New York Magazine. Online. • Roy Scranton. “Raising my child in a Doomed World.” New York Times. Online • Tommy Lynch. “Why Hope is Dangerous when it comes to Climate Change.” Slate. Online. • Recommended: Janette Webb, “Climate change and society: The chimera of behaviour

change technologies,” Sociology 46.1 (2012): 109-25. • Recommened: Naomi Klein, “When science says that political revolution is our only hope”,

On Fire, pp. 110-118. • Group A commentary 3 due.

March 11: Environmental advocacy: Principles for effective communication – values and frames. • EcoAmerica and Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions, Connecting on Climate:

A Guide to Effective Climate Change Communication (2014), pp. 6-76. [Skim]. Online. • Adam Corner et al, “Selling climate change? The limitations of social marketing as a

strategy for climate change public engagement,” Global Environmental Change 21 (2011), pp. 1005-1014.

• Jonathan Safran Foer, We are the Weather. pp. 127-143. • Recommended: Pezzullo and Cox “Advocacy Campaigns and Message Construction” pp.

203-228. On reserve at Belzberg library.

March 18: Researching, representing and shaping environmental public opinion • Connie Roser-Renouf et al, “Engaging diverse audiences with climate change” in The

Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication, Eds. Anders Hansen and Robert Cox (Routledge, 2015), pp. 368-386.

• George Marshall, Don’t Even Think About It. pp. 162-197. • In-class viewing: The Good Place. Season 3 episode 10. • Jonathan Safran Foer, We are the Weather. pp. 185-205. • Recommended: Irene Lorenzoni et al, “Barriers perceived to engaging with climate change

among the UK public and their policy implications,” Global Environmental Change 3-4 (Aug/ Oct 2007): 445-459.

March 25: Religion and Climate Change. • George Marshall, Don’t Even Think About It. pp. 198-225. • Jenkins, W., Berry, E., & Kreider, L. B. (2018). Religion and climate change. Annual Review of

Environment and Resources, 43, 85-108. • Francis, P. (2015). Laudato si: On care for our common home. Our Sunday Visitor. [Skim].

Online. • In class viewing: Katherine Hayoe, “The most important thing you can do about climate

change is talk about it.” https://www.ted.com/talks/ katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_ab out_it?language=en (Links to an external site.)

• Jonathan Safran Foer, We are the Weather. pp. 206-224. • Recommended: Naomi Klein, “A Radical Vatican?” On Fire, pp, 137-148.