Media, Sustainability and Everyday Life

Description

This book analyses representations of sustainable everyday life across advertising, eco-reality television, newspapers, magazines and social media. It foregrounds the discursive and networked basis of sustainability and demonstrates how such media representations connect the home and local community to broader political, social and economic contexts. The book shows how green lifestyle media negotiate issues of sustainability in varying ways, reproducing the logic of existing consumer society while also sometimes providing projections of a more environmentally friendly existence. In this way, the book argues that everyday lifestyles are not an irredeemable problem for environmentalism but an important site of environmental politics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Evaluating Sustainable Everyday Life (Geoffrey Craig)....Pages 1-33 Environmental Lifestyle Media (Geoffrey Craig)....Pages 35-58 Green Living in Newspapers (Geoffrey Craig)....Pages 59-82 Advertising Sustainability (Geoffrey Craig)....Pages 83-109 Eco-Reality Television (Geoffrey Craig)....Pages 111-133 Celebrities and Environmental Activism (Geoffrey Craig)....Pages 135-163 Local Sustainability Groups and Social Media (Geoffrey Craig)....Pages 165-195 Conclusion (Geoffrey Craig)....Pages 197-209 Back Matter ....Pages 211-236